| 单词 | thug |
| 释义 | thug (once / 3329 pages) n A thug is a bad guy or a bully, especially a violent one. A thug might break into someone's house, push its owners around, and steal their TV. It's hard to reason with thugs, since they'd rather intimidate and physically hurt people than talk. A playground bully is one kind of thug, and an armed robber is an even more dangerous one. The noun thug may have its oldest roots in the Sanskrit word sthaga-s, "cunning or fraudulent," and it's definitely related to the Marathi and Hindi thag, "cheat or swindler." The earliest use of thug, from 1810, was "member of a murdering gang of robbers in India." WORD FAMILYthug: thuggery, thugs+/thuggery: thuggeries USAGE EXAMPLESWearing thick winter coats, gloves and hats, they carried signs calling Trump a “fascist thug” and “Putin’s Poodle.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 19, 2016) Many are accompanied by a photograph of a black man holding a cellphone and a handgun — a purported “anti-Trump thug.” Seattle Times(Dec 18, 2016) The fake news story at newsworldpaper.com labeled him a “thug” and included other falsehoods. Washington Times(Dec 18, 2016) n an aggressive and violent young criminal Syn|Hypo|Hyper goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, tough, toughie bully a hired thug criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime |
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