cheem
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from either Hokkien 深 (chhim, “deep”) or Teochew 深 (cim1, “deep”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
cheem (comparative more cheem, superlative most cheem)
- (Singapore, informal) Deep; profound; complex.
- 1999 December 23, Dennis Kwek, “Pretentious Bullshit Alive and Well in Singapore”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
- You might consider it too cheem and arty farty but just pick up any journal on cultural studies and you'll find more cheem and arty farty stuff in them
- 1999 December 30, <[email protected]>, “Pretentious Bullshit Alive and Well in Singapore”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
- Postmodernist discourse is *not* cheem.
- 2014 June 23, Jonathan Lim, “17 Singlish words that offer so much more than their English equivalents”, in Mothership.SG, archived from the original on 25 June 2014:
- You know what’s cheem? Our CPF is cheem.
Derived terms
Further reading
Singlish vocabulary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
