'Quockerwodger is the word of our era': Shashi Tharoor’s latest vocabulary lesson comes with a political jab

Sep 20, 2026 - 06:00
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'Quockerwodger is the word of our era': Shashi Tharoor’s latest vocabulary lesson comes with a political jab
A 19th-century English slang term, ‘quockerwodger’ originally referred to a wooden toy puppet - a jointed figure whose arms and legs jerk or dance when manipulated by strings.

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