thug
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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
robber
s and
assassin
s in
India
.
Devotee
s of the
goddess
Kali
, the Thugs
waylaid
and
strangled
their
victim
s, usually
traveler
s, 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
cover
s or
conceal
s’. thug (sense 1) arose in the mid
19th century
.