Thuggee
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Hindi.
Noun[edit]
Thuggee (countable and uncountable; plural Thuggees)
- (historical, countable) A thug (member of band of assassins in India).
- (historical, uncountable) The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1070:
- ‘In India, where everything began, this kind of human activity, obscene in itself, was undertaken on behalf of a goddess, called, I think, Kali; the murder was an act of so-called thugee, I was told.’
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1070:
