"cheese-like," late 14c., from cheese (n.1) + -y (2). Meaning "cheap, inferior" is attested from 1896, perhaps originally U.S. student slang, along with cheese (n.) "an ignorant, stupid person." In late 19c. British slang, cheesy was "fine, showy" (1858), probably from cheese (n.2) and some suggest the modern derogatory use is an "ironic reversal" of this. The word was in common use in medical writing in the late 19c. to describe morbid substances found in tubers, decaying flesh, etc.
双语例句
1. The sauce was too runny and not cheesy enough.
酱汁太稀，奶酪味不足。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Politicians persist in imagining that "the people" warm to their cheesy slogans.
政客们还在想象着“人民”对他们的空洞口号会越来越感兴趣呢。
来自柯林斯例句
3. The King's Road was getting increasingly cheesy.
