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chamchagiri

chamchagiri noun: sycophancy, flattery.

Noun

chamchagiri (uncountable)

  1. (India, South-Asia, colloquial, informal, Indian politics) sycophancy, flattery.
    • People are unhappy if you are doing well and happy when you are sitting idle at home. I think that I’ve always been a soft target for controversies maybe because I have not gelled well or should I say ‘I did not do chamchagiri’.2018 April 29, Shreya Mukherjee, “Sonal Vengurlekar on controversies around her: People close to me know the truth”, in Hindustan Times
    • I was exposed shockingly to the great Indian chamchagiri culture at the age of 19 when I started off with my three-year internship at an MNC. […] What’s more, the chamchagiri came from her own creed who underwent a pupate transformation in front of her bosses.2019 April 5, Parvathy Anantakrishnan, “The Great Indian Chamcha”, in The Times of India

Origin of chamchagiri

Borrowed from Hindi चमचागिरी (camcāgirī, “sycophancy”), from चमचा (camcā, “chamcha; sycophant, yesman”) + -गिरी (-girī). By surface analysis, chamcha + -giri.

Questions about chamchagiri

What does chamchagiri mean?
Chamchagiri means sycophancy, flattery.
What part of speech is chamchagiri?
Chamchagiri is a noun.

Words near chamchagiri in the dictionary

  1. chambress
  2. chambresses
  3. chambré
  4. Chambéry
  5. chamcha
  6. chamchagiri
  7. chamchas
  8. Chamdo
  9. chameck
  10. chamecks
  11. chameleon

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