![]() ![]() ![]() While farrago means a confused mixture, a troglodyte means a person regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned. In the past, he has stumped people with rarely used English words such as "farrago" and "troglodyte". Tharoor has been a man of many words earlier too. Oxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as the action or habit of estimating something as worthless. In May, Tharoor engaged in a friendly banter with TRS working president K T Rama Rao over Covid-19 medicine names and threw in another head scratcher - floccinaucinihilipilification. This is not the first time Tharoor has sent Twitterati scurrying for their dictionaries. My friend Rathin Roy, the economist, taught me a new word today: pogonotrophy, which means "the cultivation of a be… - Shashi Tharoor 1625157643000 Tharoor's tweet left many bemused with a Twitter user saying, "If the world has Oxford dictionary Why not India has Tharur Dictionary (sic)?" "Thanks for sharing this one from Tharoorictionary," said another user. ![]()
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