Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chamchagiri

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cham-cha-giri
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

sycophancy, flattery.

Indian usage; Colloquial; Informal; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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’."
"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."

Etymology

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

Usage

Questions

What does chamchagiri mean?: sycophancy, flattery.
Where does chamchagiri come from?: Borrowed from Hindi चमचागिरी (camcāgirī, “sycophancy”), from चमचा (camcā, “chamcha; sycophant, yesman”) + -गिरी (-girī). By surface analysis, chamcha + -giri.

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