thuggeryn.
/ˈθʌɡ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈθəɡəri/ 1. The system of robbery and murder practised by Thugs (thug n. 1). Cf. thuggee n. Now historical and rare.
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the world > life > death > killing > man-killing or homicide > murder or assassination > [noun] > thuggery
thuggee1832
thuggery1834
thuggism1834
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > like that of specific people
thuggery1834
Kukluxism1881
whitecapping1888
thuggishness1921
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > [noun] > attacking and robbing > done by Indian Thugs
thuggee1832
thuggery1834
thuggism1834
1834 Bombay Gaz. 23 Aug. 408/3 (heading) Thuggery near Poona.
1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 58 The Amírs had no more power to prevent the robberies and murders..than we have to extinguish the system of Thuggery or Dacoitism.
1891 Overland Monthly July 89/2 We are horrified at the fetish customs of Africa and the thuggery of India.
2019 S. Atkinson-Sheppard Gangs of Bangladesh ii. 35 Thuggery was suppressed by the British during their rule of India.
2. Violent or aggressive behaviour, esp. of a criminal nature; intimidation, bullying, or coercion.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > [noun]
rowdyism1838
thuggery1838
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun]
outragec1300
outrakea1400
storming1461
outrageousty1485
outraying1487
ruffianry1583
ruffianism1589
thuggery1838
thuggism1859
mayhem1870
hooliganism1898
rough stuff1913
yobbism1969
yobbery1973
1838 Morning Chron. 15 Jan. It does not appear..that any of the three..were necessarily the executioners of this new system of Thuggery.
1865 Reader 26 Aug. 225/1 Ecclesiastical thuggery.
1905 Commons (Chicago) Sept. 488/1 The Building Trade's Council has formally repudiated the tactics of thuggery as the crime of the real enemies of organized labour.
2018 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Nov. What is politics without brutality, thuggery and shaming?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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