"Word of the day! Definition of *snollygoster* US dialect: a shrewd, unprincipled politician. First Known Use: 1845. Most recent use: 26/7/17," Tharoor had tweeted in 2017. Tagging that post, the former Union minister said Sunday in a post of X, " Didn't realise it would be the Word of Another Day too!#snollygoster." He, however, did not name Kumar.