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語源

Borrowed from Italian mozzarella, from mozzare (“to cut off”), from Latin mutilare.
The meaning of money derives from the early Bay Area hip-hop scene since early and is found for various food terms, including cheddar and cheese.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /mɒt.səˈɹɛl.ə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /mɑt.səˈɹɛl.ə/, less commonly IPA: /mʌt.səˈɹɛl.ə/, /mut.səˈɹɛl.ə/
• 韻: -ɛlə

使用する際の注意点

The /mu/-initial pronunciation is borrowed from Neapolitan muzzarella.

名詞

mozzarella (countable and uncountable, plural mozzarellas or mozzarelle)

1. Soft Italian or Italian-style cheese made from cow's or buffalo's milk and commonly used as a pizza topping and in salads etc.

   Hypernyms: cheese < dairy product < food

2. (uncountable, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.

   Synonyms: cheese, cheddar; see also Thesaurus:money

   • 2017 November 16, KirbLaGoop, “I Can’t Feel My Face”, in Trapped in Da 100:

     Ooh, yeah, stack that mozzarella, check a big bag / Smack it for an hour, off a thirty, let a bitch bad

   • 2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Lil Uzi Vert (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)‎:

     Me no rat, I get hella cheddar, I get mozzarella / Take two hundred thousand out the bank ’cause I fucked the teller

   • 2018 November 25, “Bank Teller”, Smokepurpp (lyrics), Lil Uzi Vert, Smokepurpp, and Lil Pump (music)‎:

     Tell a bank teller / This Louis my sweater / Came through with a Baretta / Stack my cheese, that mozzarella

   • 2019 September 13, “Diamond Tester”, in ChaseTheMoney (lyrics), K$upreme & ChaseTheMoney (music), Caught Fire‎:

     I need the cheese, mozzarella / Rainin outside, I got a Louis umbrella / She ate up my dick like Nutella / I used to be four-fourin at the bank

派生語

• mozzarella stick
• cheddarella