thug

Oznaczający (Angielski)

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.

hooligan

hoodlum

strong-armer

professional criminal

low life

yob

armed robber

scum bag

sonofobitch

crumb bum

smacko

crum-bum

ass maggot

sona'bitch'u

ratink

crum

Częstotliwość

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/θʌɡ/

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.