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roguish, a.|ˈrəʊgɪʃ|
Also 6 rogyshe, 6–7 rogish, 6–8 rogueish.
[f. rogue n. + -ish.]
1. Pertaining or appropriate to, characteristic of, rogues († or vagrants); disreputable.
1572Act 14 Eliz. c. 5 §4 Yf..they..do eftsones fall againe to any kynde of Rogyshe or Vacabonde Trade of Lyef. 1592Greene Black Bk.'s Messenger Wks. (Grosart) XI. 17 So wee like two good Horse-corsers..swapt vp a Rogish bargaine. 1608Shakes. Lear iii. vii. 104 (Q.2), Let's..get the bedlam To lead him where he would, his rogish madnesse Allowes it selfe to any thing. 1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 360, I stayed in a Spaniards house..who kept a roguish Tauerne. 1667–8Pepys Diary 8 Feb., Bought an idle, rogueish French book, L'escholle des filles.
†b. Vile, wretched. Obs.—1 (Cf. roguy a. 1.)
a1625Beaum. & Fl. Love's Cure ii. ii, Lord how my head aches with this roguish hat.
2. Acting († or wandering) like rogues; knavish or rascally in conduct.
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 644/1 The persons, by whom it is used, be of better note then the former rogish sorte which ye reckned. 1641Hinde J. Bruen lviii. 195 He abandoned and kept out of his house all roguish Players. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 159 A great Noise of roguish Moors, both Men and little Boys. 1752Fielding Amelia xi. iii, A law very excellently calculated for the preservation of the lives of his Majesty's roguish subjects. 1798Anti-Jacobin No. 2. 10 Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit. 1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 207 As long..as England cannot keep her honest poor, so long will it be ner interest to turn all her roguish poor out from her bosom. 1863Confess. Ticket-of-Leave Man 17 A roguish linen⁓draper..became bankrupt for {pstlg}50,000.
3. Playfully mischievous; arch, waggish.
1681Dryden Span. Friar 1, The most bewitching leer with her Eyes, the most roguish Cast. 1712Addison Spect. No. 269 ⁋8 Will Wimble..shews a thousand roguish Tricks upon these Occasions. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. i. xxv, The lad leap'd lightly at his master's call. He was, to weet, a little roguish page. 1781Burns On Cessnock Banks 4 Our lasses a' she far excels,—An' she has twa sparkling rogueish een. 1840Dickens Old. C. Shop xviii, Codlin..eyeing the landlord as with a roguish look he held the cover in his hand. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It. (1898) VII. xiii. 223 He made himself a favourite by roguish ways and ready wit.
Comb.1841Lever C. O'Malley x, With a sleek roguish-eyed priest.
4. Of plants: Inferior, degenerate.
1762Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 472 There will always be, in every sort, some roguish plants, as the gardeners term them, which, if left to mix, will degenerate the kind. |