cheesed
adj/t͡ʃiːzd/
Etymology Compare British slang cheesed off (“annoyed, upset”), attested slightly later.
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Slang Upset, annoyed, angry.
Now chiefly MTE
- Why are you going along, then? / Because I'm cheesed. This place has got on my wick. I want to get out.1959, Andrew Sinclair, My Friend Judas, London; Boston, M.A.: Faber and Faber, published 1985, →ISBN, page 115:
- But that great Max Martin song (I Will Be There) had better be the fourth/last single, or I will be cheezed.1999 December 16, Metal Mike Saunders, “Dear Diary”, in The Village Voice, New York, N.Y.: Village Voice, LLC., published 2000, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Nov 2022:
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- 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.2010 March 31, Cameron Atfield, quoting Jamie Dunn, “4BC backs Jamie Dunn after on-air blow-up”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 May 2016:
- 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.2015 December 10, “To the newcomers from Syria: Welcome to Canada: Editorial”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2023:
- Don't get me cheesed, or we gon T up / You need to get out the way2020 January 10, “Out My Face”performed by Prodigy Tha Kid:
- 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.2020 July 30, KILLY, quotee, “Toronto-hailed Rap Maverick On His New Track With Y2K "OH NO"”, in Wonderland, London: Visual Talent Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2023: