cheese?

[wordsrmylife]

So here's the question of the week

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[patesden]

I've used the word cheesy pretty much my entire life, so I don't know when it started. I used it as a combo word meaning cheep and sleazy.

Yesterday, I laughed when one of the local radio stations had a contest: Cheese or Font. The announcer asked if the listener knew what cheese was and I imediately thought of the cheep and sleazy definition. I was wrong. The contest was to guess if a word was a kind of font or a type of cheese.

Cheese or Font, which is it?

[wordsrmylife]

Yeah, I've used it that way, too, but the college student meaning seems to be slightly different from the way you and I use it--there's a hint of "how cliche" in the way they use it, a sense of the predictable.

[booksareadrug]

I'm not sure where it came from. I use it to describe something that's cliche, overwrought, and a guilty pleasure. The fantasy based power metal I listen to, that goes on about Unholy Warcries and Epic Battles and such, is cheesy.