thug
意味
- 悪漢;人殺し
例文
The small thug beat up the convenience store employee.
チンピラがコンビニの店員をぶちのめした。
The movement of the inhabitants drove the band of thugs out of the town.
住民の運動で暴力団を町から追放した。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
Borrowed from Hindustani ठग (ṭhag) / ٹھگ (ṭhag, “swindler, fraud, cheat”), further derived from Prakrit 𑀞𑀕 (ṭhaga), of uncertain origin. See there for more. Thuggee was a network of gangs in India from the 17th century to the 19th century who robbed and murdered travellers, often by strangling. During British Imperial rule of India, many Indian words passed into common English, and by 1810 thug referred to a member of these Indian gangs. The sense was adopted more generally as "ruffian, cutthroat, and cruel robber" by 1839. Perhaps related to English thatch, deck.