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Name: Keno
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Subject: RE: definition of Thug (NSC)
Date: Friday, December 05, 2014
Time: 3:21:13 AM
Remote Address: 162.255.159.6
Message ID: 289731
Parent ID: 289547
Thread ID: 289405
THUG: (noun) A cruel or vicious ruffian. Nowhere does it mention race.
You clearly didn't search too much. Pretty much every dictionary online notes that the word comes from India and notes it's used to describe bad Indian people who rob and kill there, including Random House, which you brought up in the subject title. This is from a Random House website: thug n.
1810, "member of a gang of murderers and robbers in India who strangled their victims," from Marathi thag, thak "cheat, swindler," Hindi thag, perhaps from Sanskrit sthaga-s "cunning, fraudulent," possibly from sthagayati "(he) covers, conceals," from PIE root *(s)teg- "cover" (see stegosaurus ). Transferred sense of "ruffian, cutthroat" first recorded 1839. The more correct Indian name is phanseegur, and the activity was described in English as far back as c.1665. Rigorously prosecuted by the British from 1831, they were driven from existence, but the process extended over the rest of the 19c.
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