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Rogue
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- 1 Vicious and solitary.
"Mosquito. One lone rogue mosquito."
- 2 Large, destructive and unpredictable. broadly
- 3 Deceitful, unprincipled. broadly
"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."
- 4 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 Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee."
- 1 A surname.
- 1 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 […]"
- 2 a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel wordnet
- 3 A mischievous scamp.
"Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!"
- 4 A vagrant.
- 5 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 removed by the MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) in the US in October were 'rogues'."
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- 6 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."
- 7 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."
- 8 A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
- 1 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."
- 2 To cheat. dated, transitive
"And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact."
- 3 To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. obsolete
"he Atheists may endeavour to rogue and ridicule all incorporeal Substance"
- 4 To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. intransitive, obsolete
"if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing"
Etymology
Uncertain. 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”).
Uncertain. 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”).
Uncertain. 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”).
English surname, originally a nickname derived from the adjective. See rogue.
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