turophile

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The Word of the Day for July 9 is:

turophile   \TOOR-uh-fyle\   noun 
     : a connoisseur of cheese : a cheese fancier 

Example sentence: 
     The new store is a turophile's heaven, offering more than 2,000 varieties 
of cheese. 

Did you know? 
     Are you stuck on Stilton or gaga for Gouda? Do you crave Camembert? If so, 
you just might be a turophile, the ultimate cheese lover. From an irregular 
formation of the Greek word for cheese, "tyros," plus the English "-phile," 
meaning "lover" (itself a descendant of the Greek "-philos," meaning "loving"), 
"turophile" first named cheese aficionados as early as 1938. It was in the 
1950s, however, that the term really caught the attention of the American 
public, when Clifton Fadiman (writer, editor, and former radio host) introduced 
"turophile" to readers of his eloquent musings on the subject of cheese.