thug

Etymology
From.

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. See also English,.

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  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.
 * 1) A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.
 * 1) A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:villain

Translations

 * Abkhaz:
 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Avar: хъачагъ
 * Basque: gaizkile
 * Belarusian: галаварэ́з, разбо́йнік, разбо́йніца, банды́т, банды́тка
 * Bengali:, টেঁটন
 * Bulgarian:, , разбо́йничка, разбо́йница, , банди́тка
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, banditka, gangster, gangsterka, hrdlořez
 * Dutch: schoelie,
 * Esperanto:, brutulo
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , , ,
 * Georgian: ჩხუბისთავი, ყაჩაღი
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, אִישׁ זְרוֹעַ
 * Hindi:, , टपोरी,
 * Hungarian:, , , ,
 * Irish: maistín, amhas, bithiúnach
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 凶悪犯人,, ,
 * Kannada: ,
 * Khmer:, អ្នកលេងកាប់ចាក់, យូកូង, កាចកោង
 * Korean:
 * Lithuanian: banditas
 * Malagasy:, mpanendaka
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: poltron
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: bølle,
 * Occitan:, bandit, malfaràs, gusàs
 * Ossetian: стъигъӕг
 * Persian: خلاف کار,, ,
 * Polish:, , , ,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ра́збо̄јнӣк, ра́збојница
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: hrdlorez
 * Slovene: razbojnik, razbojnica
 * Sotho: tsotsi
 * Spanish: matón,, ,
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Tuvan:
 * Ukrainian: головорі́з, розбі́йник, розбі́йниця,, , горлорі́з, ,
 * Urdu: ڈاکو,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: llabwst, colbiwr, thyg
 * Yiddish: שלעגער, שלאַמער


 * Bengali:
 * Hindi:
 * Urdu:
 * Welsh: thygî, llindagwriaeth, llindagwr

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.
 * 1)  To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.
 * 1)  To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.
 * 1)  To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.

Etymology
, from.

Noun

 * , yob.