cheesed

1. 1
   adjectiveslang

   Upset, annoyed, or angry.

   That slow-burning irritation of finding someone already sitting in your reserved seat.

   I was thoroughly cheesed when the train got canceled for the third day running.

   The whole crew got cheesed after the shift was extended without warning.

   Similarannoyed, irritated, peeved, miffed, angry

   Oppositepleased

   Note

   Slang with a long reach. A character in Andrew Sinclair's My Friend Judas (1959) says simply "I'm cheesed," and today the word is heard chiefly in Multicultural Toronto English, often spelled cheezed. It stands alone after be or get, with no particle. The British cheesed off, which turned up slightly later, carries the same annoyance. Keep both to casual speech.

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   verb

   Simple past and past participle of cheese.

   The whole wedding party cheesed for the photographer while the rain held off.

   Speedrunners cheesed the final boss by trapping it behind a wall.

   Note

   Which cheese lies behind the form decides how it behaves. In the slang of anger it usually brings off along (the delay cheesed him off), and then the participle shades into the adjective for annoyed. In gaming slang it means winning by unsporting tactics, with or without an object: we cheesed the final level, or they just cheesed all match. Before a camera, someone who cheesed was grinning too hard.

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