cheeselet

Meanings

1. A small, usually roundish lump of cheese; a baby cheese; specifically, a particular type made with sheep's milk in Malta.
2. A baked dish of bread and cheese covered with a mixture of eggs and milk.

Etymology

From cheese + -let (diminutive suffix). Sense 1 has been reinforced by the word’s use as a calque of Maltese ġbejna (literally “little cheese”), a diminutive of ġobon (“cheese”).