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kaizum, kaysum noun cheese 20. Compare keal etymology: possibly a development from Scots Gaelic càise or Latin caseus, Romany cas, kaes ‘cheese’ or possibly connected with chizcazin ‘cheese’; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by three of his informants; also attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies and BS in TDITA; collected by EMcC/PS and RD note:

Lexicon Balatronicum (1811) and Grose and Egan (1823) cite the forms Cash, or Caffan. Caffen ‘Cheese’ as Cant.

Canadian Paul Pope (2013) also cites the form kaizum with the same meaning.