chamchagiri

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi चमचागिरी (camcāgirī, “sycophancy”), from चमचा (camcā, “sycophant, yesman”) + -गिरी (-girī).

Noun

chamchagiri (uncountable)

1. (India, informal) Sycophancy, flattery.
   • 2018 April 29, Shreya Mukherjee, “Sonal Vengurlekar on controversies around her: People close to me know the truth”, in Hindustan Times‎^[1]:

     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’.

   • 2019 April 5, Parvathy Anantakrishnan, “The Great Indian Chamcha”, in The Times of India‎^[2]:

     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.