cheesed, a. slang.
(tʃiːzd)
[Etym. unkn.]
Bored, disgruntled, exasperated; fed up, ‘browned off’. Freq. cheesed off.
| 1941 J. Sommerfield in Penguin New Writing IV. 12 ‘I'm browned off,’ announces Taff. ‘I'm cheesed.’ 1942 G. Kersh Nine Lives Bill Nelson ii. 10 Two people, both cheesed off, are better than one. 1943 Hunt & Pringle Service Slang, Cheesed off, more than brassed off; yet not entirely browned off. 1948 A. Baron From City, from Plough 161 Whenever I'm cheesed off I just open it and start reading. 1959 I. Jefferies 13 Days ii. 25, I got cheesed and overtook. |