Episode 12: The Tharoorgeoisie.

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Dear Ms. Fussy Zaroor,


What a triumph of lexical ingenuity: The Tharoorgeoisie. It is not merely a word; it is an entire civilisation compressed into a single expression.

Indeed, only a lady of your unmistakable linguistic pedigree and delightfully aristocratic wit could have conceived so felicitous a coinage. Lesser mortals may string words together; you, Ms. Fussy Zaroor, have demonstrated the far rarer ability to mint one.

Should future lexicographers ever seek the provenance of The Tharoorgeoisie, I trust they will accord its distinguished creator the immortality that every truly splendid word so richly deserves.

Might I summon the audacity to impose upon your intellectual magnanimity and entreat you to elucidate the profound semantic intricacies of this delightfully recondite neologism? I refer, of course, to the recently minted appellation: The Tharoorgeoisie.

One observes that you have minted the rather ingenious portmanteau Tharoorgeoisie, a felicitous amalgamation of 'Tharoor' and 'bourgeoisie'. What a delectable paradox! And a deep oxymoron! Truly, such scintillating lexical wizardry could only emanate from the erudite confines of your Ministry.

​​In a final act of unalloyed desperation, I supplicate you to demystify the 'Tharoorgeoisie',  


Pankaj Khanna

Urban gardener, rustic cook. Music enthusiast. Curious blogger since 2009. Cyclist for over five decades. Word lover: Epeolater. Anagram addict. Punster with pen in hand, pun in mind, and a pan in the heart/hearth. Steam-engine devotee: a ferroequinophile. Avid avian watcher. Magic-square aficionado. Retired mathematics teacher and an apprentice Lexicomedian.

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Legsy Notes: 

Today I shall explain the word Tharoorgeoisie.

Please don't panic.

It looks difficult, but that is mainly because the word is wearing a fancy coat.

Tharoorgeoisie is made by joining two words:

Tharoor + Bourgeoisie = Tharoorgeoisie

The first part, Tharoor, refers to the famous vocabulary-loving gentleman who can sometimes make a simple sentence sound as if it has just returned from Oxford after completing three degrees.

The second part, bourgeoisie, is a fancy French-derived word for the middle or upper-middle social class.

So, in very simple English:

Tharoorgeoisie means people who use big, complicated words to describe things that could have been said in much simpler words.

For example:

Normal person:

“I am very happy.”

Tharoorgeoisie person:

“I am experiencing an unprecedented efflorescence of emotional felicity.”

Legsy translation:

“I am happy.”

See? Nothing was wrong with the first sentence.

But the Tharoorgeoisie person felt that the word happy was not suffering enough.

There is, however, one important condition.

A person does not become Tharoorgeoisie merely by knowing big words.

The real test is whether the listener understands them.

If everybody understands you, you are probably speaking English.

If nobody understands you, but everybody is too embarrassed to admit it, you may be entering Tharoorgeoisie territory.

And if someone finally asks, “What does that mean?”, and you reply, “Please consult a dictionary,” congratulations.

You have officially arrived.




Legsy Suroor

Legsy Notes Officer

Proud Gen Z activist, on TV and Jantar Mantar.

Royal Society for the Prevention of Linguistic Malnutrition.


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Footnotes and Footprints by Pak Jan

Dear Legsy,

Anagrammatically speaking, the “protest with profanity” crusader and self-proclaimed “Jantar Mantar Owner,” Saurabh Das, is poetically—and perhaps politically—destined to become Badass Rahu forever.


I know you will love this name for him, just as all of us at the Ministry already do!

The Lexicomedy Nation shall remain eternally grateful to Badass Rahu and his female fans for what they so memorably accomplished—linguistically, theatrically and otherwise—at Jantar Mantar.

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Fussy Art Gallery



( Fussy Lisa, Specially designed by the Lexicon Media, anagram of Lexicomedian, for the Fussy Art Gallery, free of cost.)

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