Green’s Dictionary of Slang

one’s wife or regular partner.

1884		Sporting Times 6 Dec. 1/1: France and Spain all day. Not a drop of Dick the Dandy. Glad to get to wherever I may roam. Found cheese and kisses with her this and the other.
1900		Sidney Truth 7 Jan. in Baker (1945) 269: When I meets the cheese and kisses and prattled off down the frog and toad, I tell you I was a bit of orl right.
1905		Duke Tritton’s Letter n.p.: I hopped in. We drove about ten miles to his place and he introduced me to his Cheese and Kisses and four Tin Lids, two Mother’s Joys and two Twist and Twirls.
1913		Sport (Adelaide) 26 July 10/4: George W. is going out with another tart [...] His cheese is going for a divorce.
1919		Truth (Brisbane) 28 Sept. 2/3: Had she become his cheese and kisses — O, perish the thought. My cheese reckons she would like to know his name and address, also his fighting weight.
1920		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 26: It’s the same wid me cheese and kisses. She’s honey wid a stranger but poison to me.
1926		Mirror (Perth) 6 Nov. 12/2: It was the usual old story of plain, straight-out pinching of another man’s missus. [...] I presume you mean his cheese-and-kisses.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1944		Maurer & Baker ‘“Aus.” Rhyming Argot’ in AS XIX:3.
1951		Cusack & James Come in Spinner (1960) 426: We’ll hop downstairs and break the news to the little old cheese-and-kisses in the bar.
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xxxiii 4/3: cheese: Wife. From cheese and kisses.
1972		Dodson & Saczek Dict. of Cockney Rhy. Sl.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 21: He lobbed all on his pat...no cheese, no chinas.
1983		R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 22: Cheese and Kisses Missus (wife).
1996		Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 211: My cheese and kisses has just fallen down the stairs and broken both her legs. I just wish it was closing time so that I could go home and pick her up.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 41/1: cheese and kisses n. one’s wife or partner.
2002		Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 cheese and kisses: the missus, eg. the old cheese.
2011		IOL News 17 Nov. 🌐 [He] wished Obama a safe retuirn home ‘to your cheese and kisses’ and to the ‘billy lids‘.
2021		Betoota-isms 244: ‘Nick couldn’t stay for a third beer, he had to get home for dinner with the Cheese ’n’ Kisses’.