Quockerwodger Tharoors latest head-scratcher
New Delhi Apr 20 PTI Congress leader Shashi Tharoor known for throwing in rarely-used often difficult-to-pronounce English words into Twitter lexicon on Wednesday posted another head-scratcher — quockerwodgerThe man of many words helpfully shared the meaning too A quockerwodger was a type of wooden puppet In politics a quockerwodger was a politician acting on the instructions of an influential third party rather than properly representing their constituents he said A useful addition to our political vocabulary Tharoor added about the word he informed dates back to 1860 This is not the first time the author-politician-wordsmith has sent Twitterati scurrying for their dictionaries to confirm whether such a word indeed exists Last year Tharoor took a dig at the BJP with the word allodoxaphobia which he explained was an irrational fear of opinions Before that the Congress MP engaged in a friendly banter with TRS working president KT Rama Rao over COVID-19 medicine names and threw in the obscure floccinaucinihilipilificationOxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as the action or habit of estimating something as worthlessIn the past he has stumped people with words such as farrago and troglodyte While farrago means a confused mixture a troglodyte means a person regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned PTI ASK ASK MIN MIN
New Delhi Apr 20 PTI Congress leader Shashi Tharoor known for throwing in rarely-used often difficult-to-pronounce English words into Twitter lexicon on Wednesday posted another head-scratcher — quockerwodgerThe man of many words helpfully shared the meaning too A quockerwodger was a type of wooden puppet In politics a quockerwodger was a politician acting on the instructions of an influential third party rather than properly representing their constituents he said A useful addition to our political vocabulary Tharoor added about the word he informed dates back to 1860 This is not the first time the author-politician-wordsmith has sent Twitterati scurrying for their dictionaries to confirm whether such a word indeed exists Last year Tharoor took a dig at the BJP with the word allodoxaphobia which he explained was an irrational fear of opinions Before that the Congress MP engaged in a friendly banter with TRS working president KT Rama Rao over COVID-19 medicine names and threw in the obscure floccinaucinihilipilificationOxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as the action or habit of estimating something as worthlessIn the past he has stumped people with words such as farrago and troglodyte While farrago means a confused mixture a troglodyte means a person regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned PTI ASK ASK MIN MIN
