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  • adjective idiomatic, slang Annoyed, upset, angry.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of cheese off.

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  • adjective greatly annoyed; out of patience

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  • When cheese slides off a slice of pizza. "It really cheeses me off when my pizza cheeses off."

    October 13, 2008

  • That really cheeses me off.

    October 14, 2008

  • That's just hard cheese.

    October 14, 2008

  • What cheeses me off is my flatmate going away for a month and leaving a bucket of ricotta going all aurora borealis at the back of the fridge.

    October 14, 2008

  • I love this page.

    October 14, 2008

  • Flatmate is much better sounding than roommate. Has a sense of temporary accommodations about it, whereas a roommate can hang on forever.

    October 14, 2008

  • Bilby, try submitting it to the Nobel committee for chemistry. If you win, you can keep the prize money for yourself.

    October 14, 2008

  • Is there a Nobel Prize for toxic household waste?

    October 14, 2008

  • They haven't amassed enough funding just yet.

    October 14, 2008

  • I think flatmate sounds like you've run over the person with a steamroller.

    October 14, 2008

  • I'm considering it.

    October 14, 2008

  • That cheeses me off.

    October 14, 2008

  • Yes, flatmate sounds, to me, like an inflated mate that went...flat. Or like flatware that matches your dishes (like GrrrAnimals for the kitchen)! No?

    October 15, 2008

  • Cheese us, this is a Wordie page.

    October 15, 2008

  • A comment from one of my comic strip readers... I love it!

    "Is it better to be cheesed off or cheesed on?"

    October 17, 2008

  • Off or on? I feel a list coming from someone.

    October 17, 2008

  • Monty Python's Cheese Shop sketch, anyone?

    October 17, 2008

  • Sorry.

    October 17, 2008

  • The most cheesed off population in America is the state of Wisconsin.

    October 17, 2008

  • Ohh! The cat's eaten it!

    October 18, 2008

  • Venezuelan Beaver Cheese, anyone?

    October 18, 2008

  • I don't care how fucking runny it is - hand it over with all speed.

    He was definitely cheesed off.

    October 18, 2008

  • Is it gorgonzola or gorgoffzola?

    March 20, 2009

  • *loves this page*

    March 20, 2009

  • It's the cheesiest!

    March 20, 2009

  • Anybody know the origin of this expression?

    March 20, 2009

  • I imagine someone's cheese went bad and they weren't very happy about it...

    March 20, 2009

  • Japanese Sage Derby...?

    March 20, 2009

  • The OED has it from the 1940s, and just says etym. unkn. It's probably services slang, as are coeval 'brassed off' and slightly earlier 'browned off', neither of which has any known explanation either.

    March 20, 2009

  • Danish bimbo?

    March 20, 2009

  • Pleth? Don't get it.

    March 20, 2009

  • No.

    March 20, 2009

  • That cheeses me off. I'm gonna go take some umbrage.

    March 20, 2009

  • There's some left? *runs off*

    March 20, 2009

  • I must say, that is the happiest a website has made me in long time! _Extremely_ satisfying.

    March 21, 2009

  • Did you read their statitics phtatiphtics? There are unpredictable umbrage peaks every now and then.

    March 21, 2009

  • Pro, that is highly offensive. I take umbrage at that.

    March 21, 2009

  • Carré de l'Est?

    March 21, 2009

  • Wow, people were really cheesed off on Feb. 26.

    March 21, 2009

  • No.

    March 21, 2009

  • You know what cheeses me off? The fact that no one has yet lauded bilby for the phrase "a bucket of ricotta going all aurora borealis at the back of the fridge".

    Man, that is one vivid image. I can almost smell it.

    Ewwwwwww.

    March 21, 2009

  • You're right ptero. That was beautiful! Chapeau my leathery-eared one! A wag of the finger to us all for letting it slip by un-kudosed.

    Allow me to buy you a nice piece of cheese as amends.

    Tilsit?

    March 21, 2009

  • *lauds*

    I'm afraid we never have that at the end of the week, we get it fresh on Monday.

    March 21, 2009

  • Prolagus: as a card-carrying statistician, your misspelling of the word "statistics" really cheeses me off. In fact, I take statistically significant umbrage.

    March 21, 2009

  • *impressed by pleth's knowledge of cheese deilvery schedules*

    March 21, 2009

  • *snort*

    Well, this is the finest cheese shop in the district.

    March 21, 2009

  • I'm so sorry. Is it OK now?

    March 21, 2009