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chiminology

noun /ˌt͡ʃimiˈnɔləd͡ʒi/

  1. Speech or writing marked by overly complex vocabulary.

    rare, uncountable

    You've been talking chiminology on about fuck knows what for, God knows how long.

Where it comes from

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”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry chiminology (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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