Meanings
alternative cheemology · alternative cheeminology
- SinglishrareuncountableSpeech or writing marked by overly complex vocabulary.
You've been talking chiminology on about fuck knows what for, God knows how long.
2001, Elangovan, Buang Suay and Other Plays, →ISBN, page 911 more example
So you can have chiminology, it means you're trying to be very erudite and talk in a very academic way...
2012 March 3, The cultural backdrop of English (radio), spoken by Sandra McKay, via ABC Radio National
Origin
- Teochew深“deep”
- Hokkien深“deep”
- Englishchiminology
From cheem + -ology on analogy of -inology words like criminology and terminology in which the -in- belongs to the Latin oblique stem, the former from either Hokkien 深 (chhim, “deep”) or Teochew 深 (cim¹, “deep”).
More words from Hokkien, Teochew
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
chiminology. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chiminology
“chiminology.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chiminology. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “chiminology,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chiminology.
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