thuggee

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hindi ठगी / Urdu ٿهگی (ṭhagī).

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Noun

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thuggee (countable and uncountable, plural thuggees)

  1. (historical, countable) A thug (a member of band of assassins in India).
  2. (historical, uncountable) The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India.
    • 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 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.’

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