Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Containing or resembling cheese.
- adjective Of poor quality; shoddy.
- adjective Vulgarly pretentious or sentimental.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the consistence, taste, odor, etc., of cheese; resembling cheese in any respect; caseous. Cheesy degeneration or transformation, caseous degeneration (which see, under
caseous ). - Stylish; fine; showy; ‘quite the cheese.’
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, or appearance of cheese.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to
cheese - adjective resembling, or containing cheese
- adjective informal of poor quality through being
overdramatic ,excessively emotional orclichéd ,trite ,contrived ,shoddy
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of very poor quality; flimsy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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At the time it looked really cheesy from the ads and the way they pushed the game, but in actuallity it was one of the best games of its type.
Bleep Bleep, Bloop Bloop. Video Games. « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009
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No one can master the ultimate in cheesy goodness like a musical.
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And my reaction was “omg how cheesy is that” and I laughed as well.
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A post-apocalyptic shanty town with people dressed in cheesy clothing.
Americatown | /Film 2008
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I refer particularly to the practice, which perhaps originated in cheesy Gothic romances but is most firmly established in bad fantasy, of taking familiar or (God help us) transiently fashionable names, changing a couple of letters, sticking in an apostrophe or two, and passing them off as something wild and exotic.
Quakers in Spain superversive 2006
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Partying in cheesy discos and singing along to cheesy karaoke tracks is undeniably a highlight of any weekend.
…the real ingredients for a good weekend « Sven’s guide to… 2006
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Go ahead and laugh -- until one day these workers will stand up inspired by the music you call cheesy and break their chains.
Baltimore City Paper 2008
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Even though I never cared for cap america. he is kind of cheesy, which is why I could see W.
Rumor: Will Smith Cast as Captain America?! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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[begin cheesy music] Gee, look at us ... blogging our way towards being better parents.
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Tentacle porn is what happens when you go to a con with some people you don’t know that well, and they run into some people they know that you don’t, and you doze off on somebody’s floor, and wake up an indeterminate amount of time later to a falsetto voice screaming in Japanese, cheesy-dramatic porn music, and then you open your eyes and see what’s on the TV…
How to Irritate and Annoy People in the Name of Blogging « Whatever 2007
alejinha commented on the word cheesy
cheesy music is like desgusting music. Chessy is somenthig without taste, bad made.
November 16, 2010
ruzuzu commented on the word cheesy
I always associated this with things that were vaguely schmaltzy or milquetoast, but I keep hearing that the meaning for folks from my parents' and grandparents' generation is more like shoddy. What gives? Is there a better word to use when conversing with my elders?
September 9, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word cheesy
(I'll note that Wiktionary claims it's "of poor quality through being overdramatic," etc., but I think cheesy things can sometimes be well done or of decent quality, just... unfashionable or silly.)
September 9, 2014
ruzuzu commented on the word cheesy
Maybe I'm mixing up cheesy with corny.
September 11, 2014
bilby commented on the word cheesy
Alert! We have a Doritos mole in our midst.
September 11, 2014