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cheesy, a.|ˈtʃiːzɪ|
[f. cheese n.1 + -y.]
1. Of or belonging to cheese; consisting of, or of the nature of, cheese; abounding in cheese.
1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. xix. lxxiii. (1495) 904 Wheye that is thynne and watry wyth chesy party synketh downe to the grounde. 1579J. Jones Preserv. Bodie & Soule i. iv. 7 Eyther thicke and cheesie, or watry and whayey. 1677W. Harris tr. Lemery's Chym. (1686) 30 The Butter and Cheesy part of Milk. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 81 Like to a maggot in her cheesy sphere.
2. Resembling cheese in appearance, consistence, etc.; esp. in Pathol. = caseous 2.
1731Arbuthnot Aliments (J.), Acids mixed with them precipitate a tophaceous chalky matter, but not a cheesy substance. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 196 Cheesy plugs often occlude the bronchial tubes. 1877Cycl. Pract. Med. XVI. 783 The beginning of cheesy degeneration.
¶3. slang. ‘Fine or showy’ [prob. f. cheese n.2]
1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma xlviii. 211 To see him at Tattersall's sucking his cane, his cheesy hat well down on his nose.
4. Also cheesey. Inferior, second-rate, cheap and nasty. slang.
1896Gore Student Slang 17 Cheesy, a vague term of depreciation. 1930Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves! x. 263 She just draws herself up and looks at them with clear, steady eyes, causing them to feel not a little cheesey. 1930R. Macaulay Staying with Relations iii. 40 Hare and rabbit fur are just utterly revolting and cheesey. 1932N. Mitford Christmas Pudding x. 154 ‘She wasn't born till four in the morning.’ ‘What a cheesey time.’ 1951Auden Nones (1952) 43 Grown insolent and fat On cheesy literature And corny dramas.
▸ colloq. (orig. U.S.). Tawdry, hackneyed, unsubtle, or excessively sentimental, esp. if nevertheless appealing; ‘tacky’, ‘kitschy’, ‘corny’. Cf. cheese n.1
In early use frequently difficult to distinguish from sense 4.
1943P. Sturges Hail Conquering Hero in Five Screenplays (1986) 805 Of all the cheezy [sic] songs I ever heard..that one certainly takes the crackers. 1948J. D. Salinger in New Yorker 5 June 37/3 She looked around the room, mentally rearranging furniture, throwing out table lamps, removing artificial flowers. In her opinion, it was an altogether hideous room—expensive but cheesy. 1972P. Bowles Let. 4 Oct. in In Touch (1994) 445 Our shops, as you know, are stocked with fourth-rate merchandise from Poland, Czechoslovakia and the People's Republic of China. (And cheesy Moroccan souvenirs for tourists.) 1989Time 6 Nov. 88/3 Superboy, for example, is an engaging adventure series based on the comic book, the TV hero's cheesy superantics come straight from hell. 1991N.Y. Times Mag. 1 Dec. 68/1 The desert oasis founded on casino gambling is no longer the place that has been fixed in the national imagination for more than four decades as a cheesy mecca of glitz. 1997T3 Jan. 38/2 To round off the cheesy pub karaoke night-ness of it all, the magic mic has drum rhythms and effects to let you rap along to your favourite tunes.
▸ cheesy grin n. colloq. attrib. Denoting a broad, uninhibited smile, freq. an exaggerated grin usually perceived as artificial, ingratiating, or insincere; esp. in cheesy grin.
The frequent implication of disingenuousness suggests the influence of two earlier senses: the forced smile induced by ‘saying cheese’ when photographed, and the later use meaning ‘hackneyed, sentimental’.
1973Observer 4 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 10/2 What the ice-rink audience really likes is pizzazz, rather than lyricism: they like a cheesy grin, powerful thighs, plenty of intricate footwork with the blades, and above all a crunching four-four rhythm they can clap along with. 1983Washington Post (Nexis) 21 Feb. c13 Her performing manner—particularly when she shot the audience a cheesy grin at the end—was charming without being coy. 1996M8 Dec. 121/1 ‘It's blindin' in there,’ he claimed, grinning a cheesy ear to ear grin. 2000M. Keyes Truth is out There in J. Adams et al. Girls' Night In 75 They eventually settled on five and instantly Tom's cheesy, mile-wide smile was back on track.
▸ cheesily adv. (a) in a hackneyed or tawdry manner; tackily; (b) (with reference to smiling) exaggeratedly; insincerely.
1983Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 27 Nov. (TV-Cable Guide section) 8/2 The violence earned the film a generic R rating, but it is so *cheesily realized that its effect is closer to a PG. 1999D. Century Street Kingdom i. 11, I caught a glimpse of Bunny grinning cheesily for a Polaroid, leaning back against a pillar with his latest Scandinavian girlfriend. 2005N.Y. Mag. 25 Apr. 94/2 First, get rid of the sappy score; toss out the book; design less cheesily glitzy scenery;..and round up a worthier cast. |