Citations:cheugy

English citations of cheugy

Adjective: "(Internet slang) uncool in a tryhard, out-of-touch way"

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• 2018 November 8, @cheuglife, “Cheugy”, in Urban Dictionary‎^[1], archived from the original on 21 April 2021‎^[2]:

  Cheugy
  The opposite of trendy. Stylish in middle school and high school but no longer in style. Used when someone still follows these out of date trends. This may include but not be limited to fashion, habits on social media, usage of slang, etc.
  My friend told me to change out of my favorite pair of Miss Me jeans because they were cheugy.

• 2021 April 29, Taylor Lorenz, “What is ‘cheugy’? You know it when you see it”, in New York Times‎^[3], Style:

  Alex Lugger, 32, a boat marketer in Springfield, Mo., said that she self identifies as a bit cheugy. (She also learned about the word through TikTok.) “We were basic in our 20s and now we’re cheugy in our 30s,” she said.

• 2021 May 16, Christine Emba, “Yes, you’re cheugy. But it’s fine”, in Washington Post‎^[4], Opinion:

  Invented by Gen Z, it has become a particular fascination of millennials, who have become obsessed both with understanding what cheugy means and with not being cheugy themselves.

• 2021, Judy Berman, "What comes after the pop-culture girlboss", Time, 5 July 2021 - 12 July 2021, page 98:

  A young generation that's more critical of capitalism has turned girlboss into a joke, a meme, something hopelessly “cheugy”—to use Gen Z's term for passé.

• 2021, Sam van Stokkom, "Recommendations", NUKS (Radboud University), August 2021, page 13:

  An analysis of cheugy fashion, fashion influencer or mod revival, she has it all!

• 2021, Carter Sawatzky, "An Autopsy Of #Girlboss Feminism", Mars' Hill (Trinity Western University), 22 September 2021, page 15:

  Derived from the notoriously cheugy “live, laugh, love,” the mantra “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss” found its funny by lumping together online phenomena the internet hates most.

• 2021, Linda Li, "Pancake Palooza", Flat Head Magazine (College of William and Mary), Fall 2021, page 64:

  But as cheugy millennials like to say, “difficult roads lead to beautiful destinations.”

• 2021, Dakota Margolis & Natalie Guislinger, "Bringing The Garden Into The Closet", ALTR Magazine, Fall 2021, page 38:

  The clothes dated back to 2015–and most would be considered 'cheugy' by today's standards.

• 2021, Molly Penny, "Fancy like apple crisp", Scene (Minnesota), November 2021, page 8:

  For those who aren't hip to the jargon, PSL stands for Pumpkin Spice Latte – a drink synonymous with “cheugy” women in Han Solo style puffy vests and Ugg boots, driving SUVs; essentially “basic” moms (like me).

• 2021, Tom Field, "On Tap From The Pub", Valley Business Front, November 2021, page 36:

  The reality is we just changed methods. Okay... “pivot” if you must use the cheugy buzz word.

• 2021, Emily Davison, "Noodle the pug is source of validation I didn't know I needed", The Reveille (Louisiana State University), 8 November 2021, page 12:

  For some, the pug is “cheugy”—another internet term I don't have the space to explain—but I heartily disagree; Noodle's predictive powers have not worn out their welcome in my life.

• 2021, Angela Velasquez, "Year In Review", Rivet, Winter 2021, page 32:

  Gen Z TikTok users begin a movement to dethrone skinny jeans and all other things deemed “cheugy.”

• 2021, Juno Le, "Gatekeeping isn't Girlboss, it's galling", RHS Knight Writers (Robinson High School, Tampa, FL), December 2021, page 2:

  Gatekeeping is extremely cheugy, and we should leave that behind with the millennials who thinks^[sic] not being able to name every chair Cedric Diggory sat in makes me a muggle.

• 2022, Andriana Thomopoulou, "How To Live A Quiet Life In A Noisy World", Gen-Zine, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2002), page 60:

  I allow User209371 to suck me in as he explains all the "cheugy" (uncool) things he saw that day.

• 2022, Keegan Williams, "2022 Predictions for Culture, Media, and More!", Out Front Magazine, January 2022, page 18:

  As we creep further into the new Roaring 20s, fully cementing the separation from the Mumford and Sons indie rock, infinity symbol tattoo, mustaches-on-everything, cheugy vibes of the 2010s, the 20s are shaping up to be something different entirely.

• 2022, Connor Thiessen, "Blossom: New TiKTok Hype House Comprises Entirely Of TWU Board Of Governors", 2 February 2022, Mars' Hill (Trinity Western University), page 19:

  One student, who wishes to remain anonymous, admitted that they had checked out @BoredHouse's content, hoping “at least some of it might slap,” but tragically found the majority of their videos "insufferably cheugy."

• 2022, Kate Moores, "Trending To Trash", The Miegian (Bishop Miege High School, Roeland Park, KS), March 2022, page 18:

  Once just about everyone owned pieces of this style, it was then considered “basic” and nose-dived from popular to “cheugy.”

• 2022, Masha Breeze & Nora Mathews, "Nine Shows You Can Watch ✨ Right Now ✨ While You Wait for Season Three of Euphoria", College Hill Independent (Providence, RI), 11 March 2022, page 2:

  Will they make it out before the old-timey mayor drops a big anvil on their recording studio, and enacts a law to make all the townspeople cheugy?

• 2022, Connor Stanford, "Crop Tops", Buzzsaw (Ithaca College), Spring 2022, page 59:

  But hey, it's 2022, upcycling is cheugy and downcycling is a serve.

• 2022, Janhavi Gosavi, "Project Bloom Was A Fever Dream", Salient (Victoria University of Wellington), Issue 4 (March 2022), page 12:

  Their outfits were unbelievably cheugy: floral skater skirts, pleather jackets, layered blingy necklaces, heavy eyeliner.

• 2022, Claire Cook, Must Love Dogs: Lucky Enough, unnumbered page (published 4 March 2022):

  "You might want to ditch the Crocs to pass the vibe check," Siobhan whispered. "They're a little cheugy."

• 2022, Renee Rose & Lee Savino, Alpha's Fire, unnumbered page (published 29 March 2022):

  Channing stops dancing. "I do not! This outfit is steezy. I got the drip."

  "Yeah, no." Deke leans out of the rain, the picture of a bored wolf picking a fight. "More like cheugy."

• 2022, Manni Burach, "Boyfriends Are 'Cheugy': Implicit Female Guilt", Your Magazine (Emerson College), April 2022, page 11:

  So one day, two years in, I was sitting in bed, scrolling through TikTok, and I came across a video that said, "You wanna know what's really f***ing cheugy? Having a boyfriend!"

• 2022, Sarah Craig et al., "Ask Voices", The Georgetown Voice (Georgetown University), 1 April 2022 (April Fool's issue), page 10:

  Did you ever consider that maybe you ARE a cheugy basic fugly bitch?

• 2022, Lauren Fraser, Everything to Me, unnumbered page:

  Kendall slid into her seat and looked around the restaurant. “I like it, it's trendy without being cheugy."

• 2022 April 30, “[Mycoronastyle] – Premium President of The Internet shirt”, in Cocot-shirt News‎^[5], archived from the original on 01 May 2022:

  By the time I was first pregnant in 2013, alongside Kate Middleton and Kim Kardashian, body consciousness reigned, with the rise of stretchy, slinky dresses and designer maternity skinny jeans. That was relative progress, but an inherent un-coolness—cheugy before cheugy was a word—remained in ubiquitous side-ruching and the nude paneling on said jeans.

• 2023 January 20, Ella Glover, “Winged eyeliner isn’t ‘out’ – you’re just doing it wrong”, in Metro‎^[6], archived from the original on 20 January 2023:

  First it was the humble side parting, then skinny jeans were denounced as cheugy. Whatever next?