‘Pogonotrophy,’ Shashi Tharoor’s new word of the day, explains using PM Narendra Modi as an example.

NewDelhi: Shashi Tharoor, Congress leader, dropped another heavy-duty English word, sending netizens scrambling for their dictionaries. On Friday, the Congress MP known for his penchant for rarely used English words dropped the latest head scratcher — pogonotrophy.

The lawmaker stated that a friend taught him a new term called pogonotrophy, which means the growth or cultivation of a beard. He jokingly mentioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his flowing white beard.

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A user on the microblogging site Twitter wrote to Tharoor, saying she wanted to learn a new word, and Tharoor gladly obliged. “Today, my economist friend Rathin Roy taught me a new word: pogonotrophy, which means “beard cultivation.” In other words, the PM’s pogonotrophy has been a pandemic concern “He stated this in a tweet.

Tharoor has previously engaged in friendly banter with TRS working president K T Rama Rao about COVID-19 medicine names, and this time he threw in another baffling term — floccinaucinihilipilification.

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