Citations:cheugy

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

 * 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."
 * 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."