If you are cheesed off, you are annoyed, bored, or disappointed. I did get a bit cheesed off with the movie's rather plodding pace.
How do you use the word cheesed off?
greatly annoyed; out of patience.
- She's a bit cheesed off with her job.
- Jean was thoroughly cheesed off by the whole affair.
- He's cheesed off with his job.
- You sound really cheesed off.
Why do we say cheesed off?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, my go-to for all things language, “cheesed” can be used to express being exasperated, fed up, disgruntled, or bored. The first printed use of the phrase was in 1941, when a piece in the literary digest Penguin New Writing included the line.
