that's super interesting! i consume a lot of british media so i've heard it plenty of times hahaha. word origins are so fascinating to me...
It's probably not a familiar word if you're an American, maybe more of a British/Canadian thing, but today I learned that "Tory" (as a nickname for Conservatives) is derived from the Irish tóraidhe; appropriately, "bandit".
that's super interesting! i consume a lot of british media so i've heard it plenty of times hahaha. word origins are so fascinating to me...