A roundabout or evasive way of speaking; a circumlocution or indirect expression used to avoid direct statement.
Mock Latin term humorously created from circum- (around) and bendere (to bend or turn), with a Latin-sounding ending. Likely 17th-century English invention to satirize verbose speech.
The term circumbendibus was a joke by English speakers mocking how Latin can make simple things sound impossibly complicated—it's basically the ancestor of how we laugh at bureaucratic jargon today.
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