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thugi

thugi is the alternative spelling of thuggee.

Meaning of thuggee

Noun

thuggee (countable and uncountable, plural thuggees)

  1. (countable, historical) A thug (a member of band of assassins in India).
  2. (historical, uncountable) The murder and robbery of groups of travellers in India.
    • ‘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.’1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1070

Forms of thugi

pluralthugis

Questions about thugi

What is thugi the alternative spelling of?
Thugi is the alternative spelling of thuggee.

Words near thugi in the dictionary

  1. thuggishness
  2. thuggism
  3. thuggo
  4. thuggos
  5. thuggy
  6. thugi
  7. thugification
  8. thugis
  9. thuglet
  10. thuglets
  11. thuglike

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