‘Quockerwodger’: Congress chief Shashi Tharoor’s newest head-scratcher for Twitter lexicon

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Congress chief Shashi Tharoor, recognized for throwing in rarely-used, usually difficult-to-pronounce English phrases into Twitter lexicon, on Wednesday posted one other head-scratcher — quockerwodger.

A helpful addition to our political vocabulary!? #Quockerwodger pic.twitter.com/iGSCMY6tzA

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 20, 2022

The man of many phrases helpfully shared the that means 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 stated.

“A useful addition to our political vocabulary!?” Tharoor added concerning the phrase he knowledgeable dates again to 1860. This will not be the primary time the author-politician-wordsmith has despatched Twitterati scurrying for his or her dictionaries to substantiate whether or not such a phrase certainly exists.

Last yr, Tharoor took a dig on the BJP with the phrase ‘allodoxaphobia’, which he defined was an irrational concern of opinions. Before that, the Congress MP engaged in a pleasant banter with TRS working president KT Rama Rao over COVID-19 drugs names and threw within the obscure ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’.

Oxford dictionary describes ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’ because the motion or behavior of estimating one thing as nugatory. In the previous, he has stumped folks with phrases resembling ‘farrago’ and ‘troglodyte’. While ‘farrago’ means a confused combination, a ‘troglodyte’ means an individual thought to be being intentionally ignorant or old style.