/ˈɹəʊɡ/, /ˈɹoʊ̯ɡ/
OriginUncertain. From either:
* Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“I ask”).
* Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this.
* Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
“And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]”
“He had told more lies in his time, and undergone more baseness of stratagem in order to stave off a small debt, or to swindle a poor creditor, than would have sufficed to make a fortune for a braver r”
““… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]””
- A mischievous scamp.
“Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!”
- A vagrant.
- Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
“An entry in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center's Threat Research & Response Blog shows that rogue AV, also known as scareware, is ruling the malware roost, as 6 top of the 10 malicious programs r”
“Next, click the "Installed on" heading in the Windows 7 uninstaller to sort the list by date, and see if any programs have the same date and time stamps as your rogues.”
“Now though researchers at Microsoft's Malware Protection Center are reporting a downward trend in the traffic generated by some of the most popular rogues over the past 12 months.”
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
“If he is a rogue, and there's any truth to territoriality at all, we got a good chance of spotting him between Cape Scott and South Beach.”
- A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
“2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine t”
- A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
- Vicious and solitary.
“Mosquito. One lone rogue mosquito.”
- broadlyLarge, destructive and unpredictable.
- broadlyDeceitful, unprincipled.
“In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state pre”
- Mischievous, unpredictable.
“Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Ho”
- To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
“2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine t”
“Our skill as roguers was being tested. After we had rogued a field the field was inspected and the potatoes classified Stock Seed, A, B or H. In those days, between Stock seed and Class A, there was £”
- dated, transitiveTo cheat.
“And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact.”
- obsoleteTo give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
“he Atheists may endeavour to rogue and ridicule all incorporeal Substance”
- intransitive, obsoleteTo wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
“if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing”
Formsrogues(plural) · more rogue(comparative) · most rogue(superlative) · rogues(present, singular, third-person) · roguing(participle, present) · rogueing(participle, present) · rogued(participle, past) · rogued(past) · Rogues(plural)