thug
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source: By William Carpenter - Columbia.edu, originally from Illustrated London News, 1857, Public Domain
noun
1. a violent person, especially a criminal.
｟けなして｠ 暴漢, 悪党, 殺し屋
2. (Thug) historical a member of a religious organization of robbers and assassins in India. Devotees of the goddess Kali, the Thugs waylaid and strangled their victims, usually travelers, in a ritually prescribed manner. They were suppressed by the British in the 1830s.
〖時にT-〗〘インド史〙 暗殺団の一員
DERIVATIVES
thuggishly adverb
thuggishness noun
thuggism |ˈTHəˌɡizəm| noun
ORIGIN
early 19th century (in thug (sense 2) ): from Hindi ṭhag ‘swindler, thief’, based on Sanskrit sthagati ‘he covers or conceals’. thug (sense 1) arose in the mid 19th century.