Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Sunday took a dig at the Ministry of Railways with a difficult-to-pronounce head-scratcher -- quomodocun🎃quize.
The man of many words, who is known for throwing in rarely-used English words into Twitter lexicon,ꦏ helpfully shar🌠ed the meaning too.
"To make money by any means possible," the meaning posted by the Coᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ🥃ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚngress leader read.
In a twဣeet, Tharoor said, "Obscure Words Deptt: Must the Indian Railways quomodocunquize?"
He tagged the Ministry of Railways, using the hash🐼tag 'SeniorCitizensConcession'. The concession, which was put on hold from March 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic hit the country, has remained suspended, with senior officials ind🔜icating it might not be retained.
While trai⛄n services remained suspended through most of 2020 and parts of 2021, the demand for the concessions began surfacing as services normalis✨ed.
In another tweet, Tharoor posted another rarely used expression – &quo🦂t;play possum" – to take a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"Unfamiliar Expressions Deptt: 'play possum': definitions: (1) pretend to be asleep or unconscious (as an opossum does to avoid attack) (2) feign ignorance," heꩵ tweeted.
"USAGE: Why does our PM play possum when heinous atrocities are committed by his🍌 worst supporters?" he said.
This is not the first time the author-politician-wordsmith has sent Twitterati scurrying for their dictionaries to confirm whether such words and exꦉpressions indeed exist. Last month, he had posted another head-scratcher — quockerwodger.
"A quockerwodger was a type of wooden puppet. In politics, a quockerwodger was a politician acti�🦄�ng on the instructions of an influential third party, rather than properly representing their constituents," he had said.
Before that, Tharoor took a dig at the BJP with the word '♊a𒁃llodoxaphobia', which he explained was an irrational fear of opinions.
Also, the Congress MP had engaged in friendly banter with TRS working presid🤪ent KT Rama Rao over COVID-19 medicine names and threw ༺in the obscure 'floccinaucinihilipilification'.
Oxford dictionary describes 'floc😼cinaucinihilipilification' a🔯s the action or habit of estimating something as worthless.
In the past as well he has stumꦐp🐷ed people with words such as 'farrago' and 'troglodyte'.
While 'farrago' means a confused mixture, 'troglodyte' means a person r🍃egarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fas﷽hioned.
(with inputs from PTI)
