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1. A cutthroat or ruffian; a hoodlum.

2. also Thug One of a band of professional assassins formerly active in northern India who worshiped Kali and offered their victims to her.

[Hindi hag, perhaps from Sanskrit sthaga, a cheat, from sthagati, sthagayati, he conceals; see (s)teg- in Indo-European roots.]

thugger·y n.

thuggish adj.

Translations

thuggish [ˈθʌgɪʃ] ADJ [person] → desalmado; [behaviour] → propio de un matón, desalmado, canallesco

thuggish [ˈθʌgɪʃ] adj → brutal(e)

thuggish

adj person, behaviour → gewalttätig; to be thuggish in dealing with somebody → mit jdm brutal umgehen

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