What does 'quockerwodger', which Tharoor called 'word of our era', mean?

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor called "quockerwodger" the "word of our era" while taking a dig at the ruling BJP on X. 'Quockerwodger' is a 19th-century English slang term that originally referred to a wooden puppet with jointed limbs controlled by strings. Figuratively, it came to mean a political puppet, or someone controlled by another person and acting on their instructions.