The story
- Hindi · borrowed fromचमचागिरी“sycophancy”
- English todaychamchagiri
Borrowed from Hindi चमचागिरी (camcāgirī, “sycophancy”), from चमचा (camcā, “chamcha; sycophant, yesman”) + -गिरी (-girī). By surface analysis, chamcha + -giri.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.