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Rogue   /roʊg/   Listen
noun
Rogue  n.  
1.
(Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons. They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
2.
A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. "The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise."
3.
One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment. "Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!"
4.
An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
5.
(Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
Rogues' gallery, a collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities.
Rogue's march, derisive music performed in driving away a person under popular indignation or official sentence, as when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment.
Rogue's yarn, yarn of a different twist and color from the rest, inserted into the cordage of the British navy, to identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to use yarns of different colors.


verb
Rogue  v. t.  
1.
To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. (Obs.)
2.
(Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).


Rogue  v. i.  To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. (Obs.)





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"Rogue" Quotes from Famous Books



... of stage tricks and small deceptions, but that he has contrived to retain at heart so much childish simplicity. When a man for a series of years has only had his wits to live by, I say not that he is necessarily a rogue,—he may be a good fellow; but you can scarcely expect his code of honour to be precisely the same as Sir Philip Sidney's. Homer expresses through the lips of Achilles that sublime love of truth which even in those remote times was the becoming characteristic of a gentleman and a soldier. But then, ...
— What Will He Do With It, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... promust, mother," sez she, an' the could sweat bruk out all over me. Ould Mother Sheehy sat down of a heap an' began playin' wid the cups. "Thin you're a well-matched pair," she sez very thick. "For he's the biggest rogue that iver spoiled the queen's ...
— Life's Handicap • Rudyard Kipling
... accused would have objected against the evidence of the olive-merchants; but the pretended cauzee would not suffer him. "Hold your tongue," said he, "you are a rogue; let him be impaled." The children then concluded their play, clapping their hands with great joy, and seizing the feigned criminal to carry him ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... among them some boys to entertain him or to drive away the flies with big feather dusters, which tickled his nose and made him sneeze. These were pleasant moments in his life, but he was often bored, and being a cunning rogue he thought out a plan by which once in a while he could be ...
— Pinocchio in Africa • Cherubini
... all men honest and deceive myself in that manner than to suspect everybody and thus think that one honest man was a rogue." ...
— Frank Merriwell's Races • Burt L. Standish


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