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gunda

gunda is the alternative form of goonda.

Meaning of goonda

Noun

goonda (plural goondas)

  1. (South-Asia, colloquial) A hired thug.
    • ‘I cannot imagine the minds of goondas.’2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 31

Forms of gunda

pluralgundas

Origin of gunda

From Hindi गुंडा (guṇḍā).

Questions about gunda

What is gunda the alternative form of?
Gunda is the alternative form of goonda.

Words near gunda in the dictionary

  1. gunching
  2. guncle
  3. guncles
  4. guncotton
  5. guncottons
  6. gunda
  7. Gundagai
  8. gundalow
  9. gundalows
  10. gundam
  11. Gundamaniac

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gunda (page history and authors); goonda (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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