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▪ I. † ˈroger, n.1 Obs. rare. [An early canting word. The g was probably hard (cf. rogacyons s.v. rogation 1 d), so that roger may be connected with rogue.] A begging vagabond who pretended to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge.
c1540Copland Hye Way to Spyttel Ho. 391 Cometh not this way Of these rogers, that dayly syng and pray, With Ave Regina, or de profundis? Ibid. 413 There is another company Of the same sect,..To whom these rogers obey as capytayns. ▪ II. roger, v.1 slang.|ˈrɒdʒə(r)| Also rodger. [f. Roger2.] trans. To copulate with (a woman); to have sexual intercourse with. Also absol. Hence ˈrogering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1711W. Byrd Secret Diary 26 Dec. (1941) 459, I rogered my wife. c1750A. Robertson Poems 98 Dear sweet Mr. Wright..Go rodger to-night Your Wife, for ye want her. 1763Boswell Jrnl. 4 June in London Jrnl. (1950) 273, I picked up a little profligate wretch and gave her sixpence... ‘Should not a half-pay officer r-g-r for sixpence?’ 1771[see ragmatical a.]. 1870Cythera's Hymnal 81 He rogered the National School. 1884tr. Abishag in Old Man Young Again (1898) I. 36, I gave Mrs. P―. a really good rogering, and sent her to sleep perfectly contented. 1919E. Pound Sel. Lett. (1971) 150 If I were, however, a professor of Latin in Chicago, I should probably have to resign on divulging the fact that Propertius occasionally copulavit, i.e. rogered the lady to whom he was not legally wedded. 1931E. Waugh Diary 14 Jan. (1976) 347 He got very drunk and brought a sluttish girl back to the house. He woke me up later in night to tell me had rogered her and her mama too. 1942E. Paul Narrow St. xvi. 116 When Rudolph Valentino died... ‘Hey, American,’ yelled Madame Absalom... ‘What did that type have that other men have not? He must have rogered half the women in your country?’ 1953Landfall Sept. 179 You black-mouth, you night bird, you rogering swine. 1953Dylan Thomas Let. 22 June (1966) 409, I..sulked all morning over my warm beer as they..rolled rodgering down. 1961A. Wilson Old Men at Zoo i. 54 I'm not at all sure about the Empress Theodora. I fancy she was rogered by an ape more than once in her circus acts. 1967D. Pinner Ritual xvii. 167 He singed the rogering labourers... It took minutes before fornication subsided. 1972‘R. Gordon’ Doctor on Brain xxiii. 168 ‘Who is the father of the child?’ ‘The man who rodgered her, of course.’ 1976K. Bonfiglioli Something Nasty in Woodshed iii. 32 You won't catch him... The bloke who rogered Mrs Breakspear. ▪ III. roger, v.2 U.S.|ˈrɒdʒə(r)| [f. Roger2 6.] trans. To acknowledge (a message, etc.) as received.
1962J. Glenn in Into Orbit 195 Both of these readings were within limits and I rogered the message. 1977J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) vi. 83 ‘We just got a call,’ he said. ‘Roger it, please.’ |