Etymology

sub-cheese

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Hindi सब
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The story

  1. Hindi · borrowed fromचीज़“thing, object, item”
  2. Hindi · borrowed fromसब“all, every”
  3. English todaysub-cheese

Borrowed from Hindi सब (sab, “all, every”) + Hindi चीज़ (cīz, “thing, object, item”), respelled in a folk-etymological identification with sub- + cheese.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.