thug

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A person who is affiliated with a criminal gang or engages in violent criminal activity.
2. One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
3. An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
4. A violent, aggressive, or truculent criminal.
5. A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.

Verb

1. To commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, to menace, to commit crime.
2. To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.

Concepts

bandit

voyou

brute

capuchon

criminel

malfaiteur

vaurien

coupe-jarret

gangster

truand

malfrat

apache

rufian

assassin

Synonymes

hooligan

hoodlum

ruffian

criminal

mobster

bandit

goon

tough

brute

thief

cutthroat

terror

toughie

punk

felon

killer

renegade

scumbag

strong-armer

wild man

gorilla

🦍

hood

career criminal

professional criminal

savage

freebooter

frog

🐸

fucker

gangster

gink

gook

grifter

heck

jerk

lout

lowlife

low life

marauder

murderer

nefarious

no good

🙅

offender

panderer

plunderer

racketeer

raff

rascal

riffraff

rip

ripper

rogue

rotter

rowdy

schlep

schlepp

schmo

schmuck

schnook

scofflaw

scoundrel

scum

scut

shit

💩

slayer

slicker

slime

so and so

son of a bitch

son of a gun

stinker

turd

yahoo

yob

apache

armed robber

dacoit

ratfink

smooth operator

dakoit

schmoe

plug-ugly

mother fucker

scum bag

slimebag

douchebag

sonofobitch

crumb bum

smacko

crum-bum

ass maggot

sona'bitch'u

accomplice

ratink

ape

assassin

badmash

bagman

bastard

blackguard

boor

brawler

brock

buccaneer

buffoon

bully

caitiff

clutch

creep

crud

crum

crump

culpable

culprit

delinquent

desperado

drip

felonious

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/θʌɡ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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.