Thuggee
//ʈʰʌ.ɡiː// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A thug (a member of band of assassins in India). countable, historical
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of thuggee alt-of
- 3 murder and robbery by thugs wordnet
- 4 The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India. historical, uncountable
"‘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.’"
Example
More examples"‘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.’"
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi ठगी / Urdu ٿهگی (ṭhagī).
More for "thuggee"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.