English Explanatory Dictionary

goondagiri

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Thuggery, goondaism.

Word forms

goondagiri

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi गुंडागिरी (guṇḍāgirī), from गुंडा (guṇḍā, “hoodlum, hooligan”) + -गिरी (-girī, “suffix meaning ‘the act of; doing’”).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on G Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary