By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: Congress chief Shashi Tharoor, recognized for throwing in rarely-used, continuously difficult-to-pronounce English phrases into Twitter lexicon, on Wednesday posted any other head-scratcher — quockerwodger.
An invaluable addition to our political vocabulary!? #Quockerwodger %.twitter.com/iGSCMY6tzA
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 20, 2022
The person of many phrases helpfully shared the which means too. “A quockerwodger was once a kind of picket puppet.In politics, a quockerwodger was once a political candidate appearing at the directions of an influential 3rd birthday celebration, somewhat than correctly representing their constituents,” he stated.
“An invaluable addition to our political vocabulary!?” Tharoor added concerning the phrase he knowledgeable dates again to 1860. This isn’t the primary time the author-politician-wordsmith has despatched Twitterati scurrying for his or her dictionaries to verify whether or not this kind of phrase certainly exists.
Ultimate 12 months, Tharoor took a dig on the BJP with the phrase ‘allodoxaphobia’, which he defined was once an irrational concern of reviews. Earlier than that, the Congress MP engaged in a pleasant banter with TRS operating president KT Rama Rao over COVID-19 medication names and threw within the difficult to understand ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’.
Oxford dictionary describes ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ because the motion or addiction of estimating one thing as nugatory. Up to now, he has stumped folks with phrases reminiscent of ‘farrago’ and ‘troglodyte’. Whilst ‘farrago’ approach a at a loss for words combination, a ‘troglodyte’ approach an individual considered being intentionally ignorant or out of date.
