thuggee
(Redirected from Thuggee)
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hindi ठगी / Urdu ٿهگی (ṭhagī).
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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 (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.’