cheesy

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  1. adjective Containing or resembling cheese.
  2. adjective Informal Of poor quality; shoddy.

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  • In any case, this negative sense of cheesy has been around since about 1863 and is thought to have arisen as an allusion to the unpleasant smell of overripe cheese. —  The Word Detective
  • She'd always thought of the place as kind of cheesy, but after Rachel had talked about it and Taryn had seen the Web site, she knew she had to bring Hawk to it. —  Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rebecca York, Robin D. Owens - What Dreams May Come
  • Sounds like a cheesy ***** description of some Steven Segal flick. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • It is defined as the cheesy substance that builds up under the foreskin of an uncircumcised male and there is a female occurrence. —  Common Sense Political Thought
  • The acting and the writing are cheesy, and the storyline simply doesn't feel realistic to me - —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Sense 2, possibly from cheesy, showy, from cheese3.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (2)

  1. from cheese + -y.
  2. cheese + -y.
 

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/ˈtʃizi/
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