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Definition: Thuggee |
ThuggeeNoun1. Murder and robbery by thugs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thuggee" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references) |
Crosswords: Thuggee |
| English words defined with "thuggee": Thuggism. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Thuggee was suppressed by the British rulers of India in the 1830s, due largely to the extensive efforts of William Sleeman. A police organisation known as the Thuggee and Dacoity Department was established within the Government of India and remained in existence until 1904 when it was replaced by the Central Criminal Intelligence Department. The defeat of the cult secured Indian loyalty to the British Crown for decades.
The story of Thuggee was popularised by books such as Philip Meadows Taylor's novel Confessions of a Thug, 1839, leading to the word "thug" entering the English language. A more recent book is George Bruce, The Stranglers: The cult of Thuggee and its overthrow in British India (1968).
The two most popular depictions of the cult in film are the 1939 film, Gunga Din and the 1984 Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Both films have the heroes fighting secret revivals of the cult to prevent them resuming their reigns of terror.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Thuggee."
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
thuggee | 9 |
cult thuggee | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "thuggee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mbytje (choke, garrotte, glut, stifling, strangulation, submergence, submersion, suffocation, thuggery, wreck, wrecking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | удушаване (strangulation, suffocation, thuggery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | orrgyilkosság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thuggaght (thuggery), dunverys Injinagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uggeethay удушение (asphyxia, asphyxiation, choke, stranglehold, strangulation, suffocation, thuggery). (various references) metod ubijanja davljenjem. (various references) adam öldürme (assassination, homicide, manslaughter, murder). (various references) thói du côn (thuggery, thuggism), thói côn đồ (thuggery, thuggism), giáo lý của môn phái sát nhân nghề ăn cướp (thuggery, thuggism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "thuggee": thuggees. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-h-t-u" | |
-2 letters: teugh. | |
-3 letters: ghee, huge, thee, thug. | |
-4 letters: egg, eth, gee, get, gut, het, hue, hug, hut, tee, teg, the, tug, ugh. | |
-5 letters: eh, et, he, uh, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-h-t-u" | |
+1 letter: thuggees. | |
+3 letters: thuggeries. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 75 67 67 65 65 |
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