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thuggee
[ thuhg-ee, thuh-gee ]
noun
(sometimes initial capital letter)
- (in India) robbery and strangulation committed by thugs.
thuggee
/ θʌˈɡː /
noun
- history the methods and practices of the thugs of India
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of thuggee1
First recorded in 1830–40, thuggee is from the Hindi word ٳī
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of thuggee1
C19: from Hindi ٳī; see thug
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We are not likely to be getting a Short Round solo movie anytime soon, though I wouldn’t mind seeing Temple of Doom’s heart-ripping thuggee cultist Mola Ram back for another go-around.
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"There was a gang of criminals known as the thuggee."
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A group of these fiends would seem to have fled into Burma; so that the mysterious epidemic in Rangoon was really an outbreak of thuggee—on slightly improved lines!
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