Cheugy
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A word for things that were fashionable a few years ago and are now slightly off: the opposite of trendy.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- cheug
- Spread in
- 2021
- Format
- Phrase
- Made by
- Gaby Rasson, a Beverly Hills schoolgirl, in 2013
- Where it started
- TikTok, where it spread eight years later
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
Gaby Rasson coined cheugy at a Beverly Hills high school in 2013 for people who were just off trend — mom jeans, live laugh love, Minion memes. It sat in Urban Dictionary until a TikTok in March 2021 got a hundred thousand likes, and then Taylor Lorenz wrote it up in the New York Times, which reached far more people than the video had. The American Dialect Society made it 2021's informal word of the year.
TimelineIn order
- Made
Rasson coins the word.1
- Took off
A TikTok video by Hallie Cain explains it.1
- Mainstream
The New York Times writes about it.1
- Mainstream
The American Dialect Society names it informal word of the year for 2021.1
What people misrememberSet straight
Commonly remembered asA word from 2021.
ActuallyIt was coined in 2013 and waited eight years.1
Why it is here: copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
SourcesWhat was read
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