thug
Significat (Anglès)
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- A person who is affiliated with a criminal gang or engages in violent criminal activity.
- One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
- An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
- A violent, aggressive, or truculent criminal.
- A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.
Sinònims
strong-armer
professional criminal
low life
yob
armed robber
scum bag
sonofobitch
crumb bum
smacko
crum-bum
ass maggot
sona'bitch'u
ratink
crum
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/θʌɡ/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
From Hindi ठग (ṭhag, “swindler, fraud, cheat”). Thuggee was a network of gangs in India from the 17th century to the 19th century who robbed and murdered travellers, often by strangling and beating their victims to death. During British Imperial rule of India, many Indian words passed into common English, and by 1810 thug referred to a member of these Indian gangs. The sense was adopted more generally as "ruffian, cutthroat" by 1839. Related to English thatch, deck.
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