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comparative more cheem · superlative most cheem · alternative chim
- SingaporeinformalDeep; profound; complex.
Postmodernist discourse is *not* cheem.
1999 December 30, <aescu...@my-deja.com>, “Pretentious Bullshit Alive and Well in Singapore”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)2 more examples
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 23, Dennis Kwek, “Pretentious Bullshit Alive and Well in Singapore”, in soc.culture.singapore (Usenet)You know what’s cheem? Our CPF is 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 Jun 2014
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cheem. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheem
“cheem.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cheem. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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