Tharoor now gives us 'rodomontade', Twitter laps up the word

After "farrago", Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has let loose another little-used word on the Indian public.

The word farrago was used by Tharoor to describe television reporting by a section of the media on the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar.

Farrago by the way means "a confused mixture".

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You would use it in a sentence that goes something like "a farrago of fact and fiction...".

The new word Tharoor let loose was "rodomontade"

He tweeted:

Rodomontade, by the way, means "boastful or inflated talk or behaviour".

Twitter quickly lapped it up and passed it along.

"& will struggle to ever use in a sentence but by golly they sound impressive," he added.

Surprisingly, considering social media, most of it was in good humour:

Then again, considering social media, some of it was not: