cheesed

English

Alternative forms

• (adjective) cheezed

Etymology

Compare British slang cheesed off (“annoyed, upset”), attested slightly later.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiːzd/

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• Rhymes: -iːzd

Adjective

cheesed (comparative more cheesed, superlative most cheesed)

1. (now chiefly MTE, slang) Upset, annoyed, angry.
   • 1959, Andrew Sinclair, My Friend Judas, London, Boston, M.A.: Faber and Faber, published 1985, →ISBN, page 115:

     Why are you going along, then? / Because I'm cheesed. This place has got on my wick. I want to get out.

   • 1999 December 16, Metal Mike Saunders, “Dear Diary”, in The Village Voice‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: Village Voice, LLC., published 2000, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:

     But that great Max Martin song (I Will Be There) had better be the fourth/last single, or I will be cheezed.

   • 2010 March 31, Cameron Atfield, quoting Jamie Dunn, “4BC backs Jamie Dunn after on-air blow-up”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[2], Sydney: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2016-05-14:

     I accepted that it wasn't malicious, but when you get in here at three o'clock in the morning every day and flog it, and I'm about to walk into my show and I see that, well I was cheezed.

   • 2015 December 10, “To the newcomers from Syria: Welcome to Canada: Editorial”, in Toronto Star‎^[3], Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-02:

     And while you'll find plenty of folks who speak Arabic, we have our own dialect that you may hear on the streets. […] We're cheezed when someone annoys us.

   • 2020 January 10, “Out My Face”‎^[4]performed by Prodigy Tha Kid:

     Don't get me cheesed, or we gon T up / You need to get out the way

   • 2020 July 30, KILLY, quotee, “Toronto-hailed Rap Maverick On His New Track With Y2K "OH NO"”, in Wonderland‎^[5], London: Visual Talent Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:

     I was kinda cheesed when everything started to shut down, like studios and video productions. It slowed a lot of my 2020 plans up. But being quarantined for so long definitely gives you time to contemplate and enjoy things you would normally take for granted.

Verb

cheesed

1. simple past and past participle of cheese

References

• Gabrielle Warren (2016 October 23) “A brief guide to Turrono slang”, in The Varsity‎^[6], Toronto, O.N.: Varsity Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-20: “Cheesed: To be extremely mad, agitated, annoyed, or all three at the same time. / Example: "Man, I'm CHEESED! All the Raptors tickets are sold out.”
• “cheesed, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

• “cheesed”, “cheezed”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.

Anagrams

• deeches, seeched