Rogue

//ˈɹəʊɡ// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Vicious and solitary.

    "Mosquito. One lone rogue mosquito."

  2. 2
    Large, destructive and unpredictable. broadly
  3. 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. 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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel wordnet
  3. 3
    A mischievous scamp.

    "Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!"

  4. 4
    A vagrant.
  5. 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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  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. 8
    A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
Verb
  1. 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. 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. 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. 4
    To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. intransitive, obsolete

    "if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

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”).

Etymology 4

English surname, originally a nickname derived from the adjective. See rogue.

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