rogue
see also: Rogue
Pronunciation Noun
Rogue
Proper noun
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see also: Rogue
Pronunciation Noun
rogue (plural rogues)
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- 1834, Sir Walter Scott, The abbott: being a sequel to The monastery, Volume 19 ↗
- And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]
- July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
- As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
- 1834, Sir Walter Scott, The abbott: being a sequel to The monastery, Volume 19 ↗
- A mischievous scamp.
- c. 1596–1599, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iv]:
- Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!
- A vagrant.
- (computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- 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 the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
- 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
- (role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
- French: canaille, fripouille, coquin, voyou
- German: Schurke
- Italian: briccone, canaglia, buono a nulla
- Portuguese: velhaco, tratante
- Russian: негодя́й
- Spanish: canalla, granuja
- French: vagabond, clochard
- German: Vagabund, Landstreicher
- Russian: бродя́га
- Spanish: vago
- Portuguese: invasor (Brazil), pirata (Portugal), sistema não autorizado, sistema não controlado (Portugal)
- Russian: лжеантиви́рус
rogue
- (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
- (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
- (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- 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 prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
- 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
- Mischievous, unpredictable.
- French: incontrôlable
- French: sans scrupules
- Portuguese: inescrupuloso
rogue (rogues, present participle roguing; past and past participle rogued)
- (horticulture) 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 the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
- 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
- (transitive, dated) To cheat.
- 1883, Prairie Farmer (volume 55, page 29)
- And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact.
- 1883, Prairie Farmer (volume 55, page 29)
- (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
Rogue
Proper noun
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