NEW DELHI: Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, known for his penchant for rarely used, difficult-to-pronounce English words, on Friday threw in another head scratcher – floccinaucinihilipilification.
The noun, which had Twitterati once again running for their dictionaries, came up as Tharoor engaged in friendly banter with TRS working president K T Rama Rao over Covid-19 medicine names.
Oxford dictionary describes floccinaucinihilipilification as “the action or habit of estimating something as worthless”.
It started with Rama Rao, or KTR as he is popularly called, wondering why medicine names are so tough to pronounce.
Not guilty! How can you indulge in such floccinaucinihilipilification, @KTRTRS? Left to me I'd happily call them "C… https://t.co/DMy3sLTDmr— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) 1621578084000