Cheugyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Reportedly coined by American high school student Gaby Rasson in 2013 to describe "people who were slightly off trend" and subsequently popularized by her peers.

発音

• IPA: /ˈt͡ʃuːɡi/
• 韻: -uːɡi

形容詞

cheugy (comparative more cheugy or cheugier, superlative most cheugy or cheugiest)

1. (Internet slang, neologism, chiefly US) Uncool; tryhard.
   • 2021 April 29, Taylor Lorenz, “What is ‘cheugy’? You know it when you see it”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 19 August 2021, 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 September 22, Carter Sawatzky, “An Autopsy Of #Girlboss Feminism”, in Mars' Hill, Trinity Western University, 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.

   • 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."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cheugy.

派生語

参考

• basic

参照

Further reading

• “cheugy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “cheugy”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.