cheem

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from either Hokkien 深 (chhim, “deep”) or Teochew 深 (cim1, “deep”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cheem (comparative more cheem, superlative most cheem)

  1. (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, <aescu...@my-deja.com>, “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.

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