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/Sounds like "chee" (as in "cheek") + "MEE" (as in "me") + "soh" (as in "solo")/

Meaning

A gossipy person in Venezuela who talks about everyone and cannot keep a single secret. The chimiso knows everything happening in the building, the office, and the neighborhood, and makes sure everyone else knows too. Information does not stay still near a chimiso.

Examples

Do not tell that gossip anything, he will spread it all over the building.

That chimiso knows more about my life than I do myself.

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Regional synonyms

To give someone the runaround, waste their time with vague detours, and never actually resolve anything. In Colombia, "embolatar" is what bureaucracies do best: you go in with a simple question and come out two hours later more confused than when you started. It can also mean distracting someone while something shady happens behind their back.