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roguen.adj. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps related to roger n.1, although see discussion at that entry.Both chronology and the difference in meaning argue against a suggested connection with Middle French, French rogue haughty, arrogant (1567), variant of rogre (late 13th cent. in same sense in Old French; c1180 in Old French in sense ‘aggressive’) < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hroki heap above the brim of a full vessel, (in transferred use) insolence, overbearing manners, related to the Germanic nouns cited at rick n.1). A. n.society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage > vagabond or tramp α. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan ii. ix. sig. Gvi He came bifore roges whiche he knewe wel garnisshed of vitaille, for the whiche thing they kept hem stronge. ?c1550 tr. P. Vergil (1846) I. 17 The Ile of Mone,..a redie refuge for roges and ronnawayes. 1567 T. Harman (new ed.) sig. Ci A Roge is neither so stoute or hardy as the vprightman. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer iv. f. 56 Both Jeasters, Roges and minstrels with their instruments are heare. 1590 J. Smythe 11 b The very scomme, theeues, and roges of England. 2. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal 1568 in W. T. Ritchie f. 210v/5 Som rakles roig may hasard hir to ryde And namlie at ane anker in the night. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens 143 Certayne deceytfull and naughtie rogues that would be taken for cunning physitions. 1592 ii. i. 5 Such a slaue, so vile a roge as he, Lyues not againe vppon the earth. 1605 sig. D3 My Lord, he is the most notorious rogue That euer breathd. 1680 H. Prideaux (1875) 81 Those rogues have designes goeing on, but if the King will but put on a little rigour he may easyly quel them. 1768 A. Tucker II. i. 138 It is a common saying that you must set a rogue to catch a rogue. 1792 J. Almon (octavo ed.) II. xxii. 28 The Duke of Newcastle said: Fox was rogue enough to do any thing, but..not fool enough to do this. 1814 Ld. Dudley (1840) 34 Talleyrand, to be sure, is a rogue; but he is a rogue of long experience. 1858 Oct. 619/2 He who is carried by horses must deal with rogues. 1888 J. Bryce II. li. 295 The newer frames of government are an improvement upon the older. Rogues are less audacious. 1904 M. Pemberton xi A rogue of a ship and a drunken man in charge of her. 1949 ‘J. Tey’ xv. 139 Timber..was a deliberate and intelligent rogue... There was nothing small-time about Timber. 2008 (Nexis) 25 June 22 I knew when we met that Goering was an evil rogue. society > authority > subjection > service > servant > [noun] a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. i. 130 Off with my boots, you rogues: you villaines, when?.. Out you rogue, you plucke my foote awrie. View more context for this quotation 1676 T. Shadwell ii. 27 Hey, where are my Rogues? Hey! 1701 C. Cibber ii. 12 What, will none of my Rogues come near me now? O! Here they are. [Enter several Servants.] 1713 R. Steele No. 1. 8 My Lord, your Rogue has me safe here. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in 233 Yet ev'n the rogue that serves him..Prefers his fellow-grooms. 1834 R. M. Bird Broker of Bogota v. ii, in 248/1 Your rogue has stolen her; you know that well—and you protect him. 1898 15 263 Your rogue Bauer I encountered last night and broke his head. 1902 K. Tynan iii. 40 The Queen, too, related to him in French my rogue's complaint. the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > playful mischievousness > mischievous person > [noun] 1593 B. Barnes 100 Venus, aloude for her sonne Cupid cryed: If any spye loue gadding in the streete It is my roage. 1600 W. Shakespeare ii. iv. 217 A you sweet little rogue you, alas poore ape. View more context for this quotation 1602 ii. vi. 1025 I shall be his little rogue, and his white villaine for a whole week after. 1672 Duke of Buckingham i. 6 It's a pretty little rogue; she is my Mistress. I knew her face would set off Armor extreamly. 1728 ii. ii. 22 I love you, skin me, if I don't, you little Rogue you. 1738 A. Pope 7th Epist. 1st Bk. Horace in II. ii. 27 What rob your Boys? those pretty rogues! 1784 J. Potter I. 161 It is evident, that sly rogue Cupid has pierced your heart with one of his keenest arrows. 1808 25 Jan. 408 The very negroes, those holiday-loving rogues, gorgeously arrayed in cast off finery. 1887 H. Caine I. vii. 137 The young rogue, who spoke the home-spun to the life. 1912 M. D. Frost tr. R. Bazin viii. 176 Run along! run along! Did ever one see such a rogue! 1952 J. W. Bowyer i. 8 Jack was a smart little rogue, who insisted that he be shaved along with his cousin. 2001 (Nexis) 23 Nov. 43 Johnny Briggs has been playing Coronation Street's lovable rogue Mike Baldwin for 25 years. the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed 1727 B. Langley 133 These degenerate Pease are by the Gardiners called Rogues, and are discovered by the Over-rankness of their Haulm. 1847 C. Darwin 7 Apr. (1988) IV. 32 The varieties of our cultivated vegetables, & of various flowers in gardens, do come up with much constancy, from seed; & yet we usually may find some ‘rogues’, as gardeners term them, reverting towards the type of the species. The offspring of the rogues become some of them, still more roguish. 1868 C. Darwin II. 31 If gardeners did not generally..pull up the false plants or ‘rogues’ as they are called. 1907 W. R. Beattie vi. 52 Among the thriftiest plants in the bed will be found all the rogues, or sports, as they are commonly called. 1942 H. K. Hayes & F. R. Immer xvii. 269 Any rogues present were removed prior to tasseling. 2007 T. Winch 45 This type of rogue, in a seed crop, is also known as an off-type. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > racehorse > with particular qualities or faults the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > used in hunting > lazy 1699 G. Farquhar iii. 31 Was ever poor Rogue so ridden? If ever the Muses had a Horse, I am he.] 1796 S. Cullen I. vi. 75 It was incumbered only with an old wife, an old daughter, an old rogue of a horse, [etc.]. 1821 Nov. 47/1 A horse from the North, which fame had puffed forth as a great racer, instead of a great fine horse and a great rogue. 1881 29 Aug. 5/3 Gentle breaking, on the other hand, may..prevent a racehorse from becoming a ‘rogue’ or a ‘savage’. 1884 7 June 4/1 The ordinary ‘rogue’ has become fainthearted through punishment of whip and spur in race or trial. 1922 12th Ser. 11 207/1 A horse which does not ‘put all in’ is one which does not do its best—a slug, a lazy horse, a rogue. 1975 F. Hardy & A. G. Mulley 23 The Old Huck, was given a mount of a ‘rogue’ at Newcastle. It had been left at the post and had run off at the turn in every race. 1986 V. Hearne (1987) v. 145 There was every evidence that this horse was a genuine rogue, and it did look for quite a bit as if destroying him was the only safe thing to do. 6. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > with particular character 1850 F. Egerton Jrnl. 16 Dec. in (1852) I. iii. 85 We were on the track of a single elephant, probably a rogue. 1859 J. E. Tennent II. viii. iii. 327 The outcasts from the herd, the ‘Rogues’ or hora allia,..there is not probably one Rogue to be found for every five hundred of those in herds. 1886 P. Robinson 55 Killing a rogue..now falls into the same category as any other act of public justice. 1903 Mar. 758 That elephant must be a rogue who has wandered here from some far-away place. 1940 F. J. C. Hearnshaw 271 It is the story of a people always warlike, always aggressive, an Esau among nations, a rogue among elephants. 2000 T. Hall (2001) i. 7 ‘You have a romantic view of elephants,’ he remarked. ‘Genuine rogues are rare, but we do get them from time to time.’ the world > animals > by nature > [noun] > wild animal 1872 R. F. Burton II. 244 The ‘rogue’..is found amongst hippopotami, elk, deer and other gramnivors as well as amongst elephants, lions, tigers, and the larger carnivors. 1904 P. Fountain xxiii. 270 It seems to be a habit of all gregarious mammals to expel certain members from their society, sometimes on account of age, but more frequently it would seem because they are ‘rogues’ or ‘black sheep’. 2005 J. Enderson vi. 80 Bison sometimes become dangerous rogues. B. adj.1835 J. Holman III. xi. 306 A rogue elephant is either a large male who has been driven from the herd, after losing a contest for the mastery of the whole; or a female, wandering from it in quest of her calf. 1861 J. E. Tennent Index 490/2 Rogue buffalo. 1872 R. F. Burton II. 244 The ‘rogue’ hippopotamus is an old male no longer able to hold his own against the young adults. 1892 10 Sept. 349 The ferocity of the ‘rogue’ buffalo and ‘rogue’ hippopotamus. 1926 J. Masefield x. 171 He roused up as a big, elderly rogue-bull of a man..came in. 1977 N. Adam v. 56 I wasn't sure I liked myself..rogue male acting instinctively, obeying the territorial imperative. 2002 D. F. Steward 253 A rogue bear stalked a family. society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] 1948 ‘J. Tey’ vi. 56 If a ‘rogue’ publication decided not to conform to those principles then there was no power that could make it conform. 1964 22 Feb. 14/6 Frequent complaints were made about a very small number of ‘rogue’ firms which belonged to neither the Association of British Travel Agents nor the Travel Trade Association. 1979 4 Apr. 3 A housewife's game of patience came to an abrupt end when a 20-ton ‘rogue’ mechanical shovel begun crunching its way through the walls of her semi-detached home. 1981 29 Jan. 278/3 (caption) Gamma-ray bursts may come from collisions between rogue asteroids and neutron stars. 2006 Jan. 149/1 Perhaps the most worrisome emerging threat is zombie networks—hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software. the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > [adjective] > deviating from rule or standard > anomalous 1952 77 171 With the exception of one rogue result, the present estimates are as concordant as can reasonably be expected. 1964 C. Dent iii. 30 A device enabling you to switch the machine to manual and continue using it as an ordinary typewriter is very useful if, for instance, you wish to insert a ‘spot’ item, or other ‘rogue’ item in the bill of quantities, at the last moment. 1979 Nov. 73/2 When the program detects the rogue value, this is an indication that the input list is complete and further processing can continue. 2008 (Nexis) 19 Jan. 12 There are the other rogue statistics which confound any idea of a uniform pattern. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty 1962 18 Jan. 12/7 Manufacturers are aware that ‘rogue’ and sub-standard cars are sold to the public. 1971 Apr. 99/1 Such differences are readily detectable and allow experimental fuel elements to be checked for rogue fuel pellets. 1989 (Nexis) 22 July The rogue engine spluttered twice then stopped. 1994 22 Jan. 1 She became the fourth addict to be killed by a batch of ‘rogue’ heroin being peddled. Phrases P1. 1688 R. Holme (1905) xiv. 2/1 He beareth sable, a chamber pot... There is nothing neuer so vsefull, but it may be abused, so is this when it is called..a Rogue with one eare. P2. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > shilling 1857 ‘Ducange Anglicus’ 17 Rogue and Villainn., a shilling. 1859 J. C. Hotten 145 Rogue and villain, a shillin,—common pronunciation of shilling. 1877 J. W. Horsley i. 3 Come, cows and kisses, put the battle of the Nile on your Barnet Fair, and a rogue and villain in your sky-rocket. 1931 S. Kaye-Smith iii. 293 Got a rogue and villain for a pore man, dear?.. I mean a shillin, lady. 1965 4 Mar. 46 Shilling... Sometimes known in rhyming slang as a ‘rogue and villain’. 1973 B. Aylwin xiv. 62 Rogue & villain, shilling. 1905 C. S. Cumberland Tiger in ii. xv. 312 Proscribed elephants, i.e. those who have gone rogue, and therefore dangerous and destructive. 1932 N. Collins 270 There is always the other Mr. Galsworthy, the gentleman gone rogue, and gone rogue in a gentlemanly angelic fashion. 1951 L. Sprague de Camp i. 26 If I should ever plan to go rogue, I won't confide in anybody who might spoil my plan. 1965 30 Apr. 695/2 A group of American bombers..go rogue through a mechanical foul-up. 1997 22 Sept. 33/1 Will we be able to prevent what happened in the three-oh, a whole precinct going rogue? 2008 (Nexis) 13 Nov. e16 He might go rogue and start killing..indiscriminately in hopes of dispatching the truly guilty. Compounds C1. a. (a) Appositive. In some cases, esp. in later use, rogue may be interpreted as an adjective.1840 28 Mar. 205/2 Mr. Turnour,..the rogue-partner of the rogue-agent. 1977 (Nexis) 12 Dec. 34 Internal sanctions and the threat of criminal litigation are enough to keep rogue agents in check. 2001 5 Jan. 6/1 The Intelligence Ministry said they were ‘rogue agents’. 1951 W. P. McGivern xvii. 223 Cops protect each other, right or wrong, and that gives the rogue cop too much of a break. 2003 H. S. Thompson ii. 109 It is shocking to see Aspen's long and honourable tradition of quality law enforcement being sullied by these charges about ‘rogue cops’. 1899 F. W. Chandler i. i. 6 The Roman de Renart also, with its masquerade and bold parody, and its rogue hero, the fox, went a long way toward preparing for the advent of the picaro. 1932 R. M. Lovett & H. S. Hughes i. i. 15 A realistic story of low life with a rogue hero, entertaining its readers by a realistic and satiric portrayal of the vices and follies of the real world. 2005 (Nexis) 30 Dec. 30 Space-opera thrills, tight editing, witty dialogue, sharp characters, two-fisted action and a rogue hero who darn well shot first. 1823 W. Scott II. v. 132 But the rogue-lawyers..have at length roundly told me the clause must be complied with. 1929 E. A. Baker II. ix. 138 Far more grievous offenders—rogue lawyers, to wit, and usurers, deceitful tradesmen, fortune-hunters and the like—go undetected. 2009 (Nexis) 1 Jan. 10 The Law Society of Tasmania has defended new state laws to deal with rogue lawyers. 1977 J. Mellen viii. 296 Magnum Force and Three Days of the Condor..ascribe such assassinations to rogue operations within the CIA. 2003 17 Apr. i. 1/5 The Force Research Unit..ran a rogue operation in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s that led to murders. 1964 22 Feb. 3/4 The public would not be protected from rogue operators by an Act of Parliament. 2009 (Nexis) 29 June 8 Residential Property Solutions launched an ethical rent-back charter to..clamp down on rogue operators. 1679 J. Dryden iv. i. 41 Thou must be gone, to the fugitive Rogue Priest thy father. 1863 W. Dalton (1865) xii. 153 Moors and the rogue priest must have become convinced of our humanity. 1996 19 Oct. 6 We have enough rogue priests without inventing one. 1824 W. Scott Let. 8 July in J. G. Lockhart (1837) V. xii. 357 The rogue Radicals had nearly set me on horseback again. 2007 (Nexis) 4. Nov. h1 It's sort of these rogue radicals that believe that they can define what sexuality, morality is in the church. 1601 B. Jonson ii. iii. sig. E4v Of a scuruy rogue Souldier, a pox of God on him. View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal iii. 48 Some Rogue-Souldier, with his Hob-nail'd Shoos. 1899 F. W. Chandler i. vi. 346 El Gallardo Español, with its rogue soldier practising a religious cheat similar to that of Salas Barbadillo's Elena. 1931 22 Mar. 21/3 (caption) Affairs between a Princess and a rogue soldier sent to die in bloody Darvas! 2007 5 Oct. a16/1 Reliance on contractors outside the military chain of command reduces accountability on the ground—leaving rogue soldiers without guardrails. 1922 J. Joyce i. iii. [Proteus] 47 Roguewords, tough nuggets patter in their pockets. 1972 15 Mar. 4/4 Protesters feared that his ‘dirty money’ might find its way into ‘technological warfare’, a rogue word for national defense. 2009 (Nexis) 4 Apr. 62 They are hauled up to explain a few rogue words uttered in the heat of battle. (b) Objective. 1630 T. Dekker v. ii. 367 Hold, you Rogue-Catcher, hold. 1856 26 Feb. 12/2 About 2 o'clock..a few mornings since, this rogue-catcher was heard to spring against the fence. 1907 C. R. L. Fletcher (1908) II. 536 There is more than one professional ‘rogue-catcher’, who receives threepence per rogue. 1999 (Nexis) 3 Dec. 44 The celebrated TV rogue-catcher. (c) Parasynthetic. 1824 II. 17 As Catullus and Ovid are with Venus, and the plagiarists with the rogue-eyed Mercury; so Mr. Stepney, we conclude, has been sent by Minos. 1909 N. Griffith xi. 87 Susan, a rogue-eyed Aberdeen terrier, cocked both her ears at opposite angles. 2008 (Nexis) 18 June 16 The life-size portrait of rogue-eyed Whistlejacket, rearing menacingly in empty space. b. (Some cases, esp. those of later origin, may be interpreted either as compounds of the noun or as showing uses of the adjective.) 1697 J. Vanbrugh v. 67 Stand off, Rogue-face. 1915 J. Galsworthy (1970) xxxviii. 406 Her rogue face twinkled again. 2003 (Nexis) 12 Feb. Wasn't the rogue face of a liberal faith raised primarily by their urge to contain communism and partly fuelled by their desire to protect Zionism? 1790 F. Grose (ed. 2) Suppl. Rogue-House, the house of correction. 1633 ii. i. sig. D3 An arrant vhore, to refuse Master Innocent Earelacke of Rogue-land. 1850 E. B. Underhill tr. T. J. van Braght I. 158 Luther calls the monks and priests, creatures of the devil, fallen stars, forgers of idols, living in the seven deadly sins, savage beasts, and citizens of Rogueland. 1899 W. Besant ii. xx. 351 This man had for years exercised absolute sway over Rogueland. 1922 P. S. Allen tr. J. Verne i. viii. 67 They are rascals and come from Rogueland. 1919 I. M. Tarbell ii. 55 Belgium might be surrounded by rogue nations, but still there is a choice in rogues. 1979 24 Sept. a9/1 The letter is not so thorough or rich in detail as to help terrorists or a rogue nation build a hydrogen bomb. 2004 21 May 1098/1 Some of its scientists..were desperate enough to take work in so-called rogue nations—even North Korea. 1707 No. 4357/4 At Ham..are to be sold, Garden Beans, Gosport-Beans, Rogue-Pease, and Hotspur-Pease. 1744 D. Hilman 3 The most forward Pea is the Rogue, they are pick'd from the Hasting and Hotspur, and are of late had in great Reputation.] 1916 B. 89 174 We described the genetic behaviour of the peculiar wild-looking, ‘rogue’ peas which appear as the offspring of the cultivated type. 1917 8 475 Sugar peas and rogue peas can also become badly diseased when grown on infected land. 1949 C. D. Darlington & K. Mather ii. ix.182 The rogue pea appears in most garden varieties, and has more pointed leaves and more curved pods than the type of the variety. 1973 8 May a22/2 No less a menace is posed by Syria, a rogue state which once again has sponsored an invasion of an Arab neighbor. 2003 Nov. 23/1 Where the U.S. might play an active role right now is in making it utterly clear to our ostensible ally that unless it ceases to export its nuclear know-how and materials to rogue states, it will be made to pay a very stiff price. 1947 2 Feb. iii. 12/2 Fairbanks has the starring role, playing a rogue trader with an addiction to tall tales. 1972 19 Oct. 496/1 How is the ordinary man in the street to tell whether it has been calculated on the ‘fair’ basis as laid down by the legislation, or the unfair basis which will no doubt be perpetrated by a considerable number of rogue traders? 1987 29 May 40/2 The exchange [sc. the Chicago Mercantile Exchange] is making a more determined effort to discipline rogue traders. 1995 28 Feb. 25/2 To blame the debacle on the antics of a rogue trader who stupidly overreached himself, as the top brass at Barings and the Bank of England were yesterday, is simply not credible. 2008 4 Feb. 2/4 New trading standards ‘scambuster’ teams are to go to war on cowboy builders, cold-call conmen, rogue traders and email swindlers. 1889 A. T. Pask 146 Apple standards laden with the light silky-skinned Manx codlins, sometimes broken by the rosy-red of an intruding ‘rogue’ sapling. 1963 21 Jan. 13/1 That was the ‘rogue wave’, generated by some unusual combination of wind and water. 1974 June 91/2 The rogue wave our 78-ft. experimental craft hit must have been well over 10 feet high. 2005 22 Dec. 1065 (caption) Seafloor sensors confirmed that ship-swamping ‘rogue waves’ really do exist. C2. Compounds with rogue's or rogues'. 1891 25 Apr. 5/1 There is still the fact that he wears the rogues' badge. 1922 H. Cox xvii. 197 I wonder how many race horses have suffered ignominy and have been decorated with ‘the rogue's badge’ owing to similar causes over which they have no control. 2007 (Nexis) 2 Feb. (Sport section) 11 Brave Inca..may find himself sporting the rogue's badge when he turns up at Cheltenham to defend his title next month. society > communication > record > pictorial, etc., records > [noun] > pictorial record > specific society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > display of pictures > [noun] > gallery 1857 5 Dec. 1/4 There must be positive proof that the man or woman, girl or boy, whose likeness is added to the Rogue's Gallery of the Detective Police, is an incorrigible offender. 1896 19 Feb. The famous..‘Moll Cutpurse’, Barbara Villiers, and Mrs Brownrigg will feature in this new feminine rogues' gallery. 1923 Sept. 344/2 (heading) Rogue's gallery of pests is kept for farmers. 1955 No. 24. 41 His [sc. a pickpocket's] face appears more frequently than any other type of criminal in ‘rogue's galleries’ and police files. 1977 C. McKnight & J. Tobler 10 Bob Dylan, Arthur Lee, Keith Richard, Bob Marley—the rogue's gallery of rebel input that forms the hard stuff at the centre of rock. 2002 4 Nov. 4 (heading) Cops issue rogues gallery as they pledge zero-tolerance on drugs. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > cruciferous flowers > white or purple flowers 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens 153 These floures be now called..in English Damaske violets..and Rogues gillofers. 1884 R. Folkard 514 The Garden Rocket (Hesperis) boasts of many other old-fashioned names:—Dame's Violet, Damask Violet, Queen's Gilliflower, Rogue's Gilliflower, [etc.]. 1918 L. B. Wilder 359 Hesperis matronalis—Sweet Rocket, Dames Violet,..Rogue's Gillyflower, Night-scented Gillyflower. 1999 H. P. Loewer ix. 103 Dame's rocket (Hesperis matronalis) has other common names, such as sweet rocket and rogue's gilliflower. the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > used by thieves or disreputable characters the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > postulated Italo-Celtic > Latin > anglicized or corrupt 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in 2nd Ser. II. 315 He knows my gybe as well as the jark of e'er a queer cuffin in England—and there's rogue's Latin for you. 1858 15 May 201/2 The speech being delivered in bad English and worse German, largely intermingled with the patois called rogues' Latin. 1985 J. Wilt iv. 138 She accepts the Rogue's Latin note from Daddie Rat. society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of drums > driving out rogue 1772 ‘Invisible Spy’ 12 The drums and fifes of the army all the way diverting him with the melody of the celebrated piece, vulgarly called the Rogue's March. 1802 C. James at March Rogue's March, a tune which is played by trumpeters or fifers of a regiment..for the purpose of drumming out any person who has behaved disorderly..in a camp or garrison. 1911 A. Sangree 18 If he sulked or ‘threw’ games he could be fined, kept on the bench, or expelled to the tune of the Rogues' March. 1994 (Nexis) 16 Dec. 12 Spiritual values, earth care, and clean air are given the rogues' march at Albert Park. 1894 R. D. Blackmore I. xi. 152 To have him drummed out of the parish to the rogue's tattoo. 1995 (Nexis) 22 Apr. The ‘drumming-out’ of a disgraced soldier, who was forced to face the drumming of a ‘Rogue's Tattoo’ or ‘Rogue's March’. 1857 12 Sept. 264/2 I entreat the intelligent magistrates in whose division Rogue's Walk lies, to leave their dinner-tables some evening, and go and judge for themselves whether it is anybody's business to do anything towards the correction of this scene of profligacy. 1882 11 Jan. 2/1 The Rogues'-walk—that broad ribbon of pavement stretching from Piccadilly-circus past the Criterion Theatre and Restaurant to the top of the Haymarket. 1888 R. L. Carpenter in 67 The abandoned girls, many of them very young, who frequent the Rogues' Walk after midnight. society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] > mark of ownership > specific 1769 W. Falconer Rogues-yarn,..a rope-yarn, of a particular construction..placed in the middle of every strand, in all cables and cordage in the king's service... The use of this contrivance is to examine whether any cordage, supposed to be stolen or embezzled, has been formed for the king's service. 1838 104 The Count, whose curiosity was excited by the manner in which the ‘rogue's yarn’ was twisted in, laid his hand upon one of the strands. 1986 M. P. Verney vii. 113/1 Polypropylenes and polyesters [sc. in ropes]..are often dyed to avoid confusion with stronger materials, while others have a single dark yarn..called a rogue's yarn by seamen. Derivatives 1636 J. Trussell 4 Seeing the rabble so ragged and rogue-like..it was held no discretion for the King to venture his person among them. 1789 O. Equiano I. v. 120 Rogue-like, he never told them he had got a guinea from me to procure my escape. 1864 W. D. Latto xxii. 234 I was an alien an' an ootcast on the warl's hie-road, humbly cravin' his pardon for havin' run awa in the rogue-like mainner I had dune. 1998 8 Nov. 9 Dillon, whose rogue-like character is played by Lorcan Cranitch, initially catches Niamh's eye. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). roguev. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rogue n. 1. the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [verb (intransitive)] society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander > as a vagabond or tramp society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [verb (intransitive)] α. 1570 P. Levens sig. Niiv/1 To Roge, vagari. 1583 P. Stubbes sig. H3v A sort of vagarants, who run stragling (I wil not saie roging) ouer the countries. 1589 J. Lyly E ij b Trusse vp thy packet of flim flams, & roage to some Countrey Faire. 1610 G. Fletcher 5 And in the mid'st, Strife still would roaguing be. 1615 W. Fennor To Rdr. sig. A4v Although I cannot Rogue it, as he can, Yet will I shew my selfe an honest man. 1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave (new ed.) To rogue it vp and downe the countrie, roder le pais. 1835 E. Corley Let. 25 Mar. in 42 (1955) 425 They have rogued it and whored it among the Indians. 1896 1 423 Rogue,..to thieve. ‘The cat is roguing it some.’ 2000 (Nexis) 13 July 36 From binges with Burton to rogueing it as Lovejoy, Ian McShane knows all about mischief. †2. the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > accuse [verb (transitive)] > accuse of or charge with > roguery 1630 J. Taylor 151/2 It may bee thou wast put in office lately, Which makes thee rogue me so, and rayle so stately. 1683 T. Hunt 25 The Poet hath undertaken for their being kicked..about the Stage to the Gallows, infamously rogued and rascalled. 1698 133 Better than..Roguing the King's best Leige people, As meriting the Gallow Tripple, Without affording the least Proof. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > detract from [verb (transitive)] > bring discredit on or bring into disrepute 1678 R. Cudworth i. v. 778 Though the Atheists, may endeavour, to Rogue and Ridicule, all Incorporeal Substance in that manner. 1685 H. More 15 More like prophane Buffonry, to rogue and abuse so Sacred a Writing. the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle a1714 E. Freke (2001) 96 Itt is the thyrd time he has thus roged mee by his tricks since my deer husband dyed above two hundred pound. 1841 S. Hawkins V. 45 An' likewise rogue and cheat the poor, Who for their meat do labour sore. 1869 R. D. Blackmore III. iii. 43 We have rogues to deal with: but try we not to rogue them. 1889 W. Westall II. xii. 201 If he helps me to rogue other folks, he'll help other folks to rogue me. 1914 S. MacManus 200 Them jobbers rogued our people out of a good deal more than five pound. 1937 in G. P. Rawick (1977) VI. 190 I had a lot of property in de past, but dey rogued me out of it. the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivate plants or crops [verb (transitive)] > thin out the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > eliminate inferior plants 1764 P. Miller (ed. 7) at Pisum This is what they call Roguing their Peas, meaning hereby, the taking out all the bad Plants from the good. 1766 at Pease The only way to prevent this, is to rogue them, as the gardeners term it, that is to say,..to draw out all the bad plants from among the good ones. 1805 J. Malcolm II. 471 Taking especial care to keep them clean from weeds, and regularly rogued, as well with regard to those plants which were disposed to sport. 1849 G. Glenny 29/1 Parsely should be rogued, as it is called—that is, every root, that has not a well-curled foliage, taken out. 1896 i. 57 Up to the first of June they can get in with a hoe, and to rogue out the ‘off’ kinds, and after that the vines lock in together. 1905 25 July 6 Of late agriculturists have had excellent opportunities for ‘rogueing’ their drills. 1965 26 Sept. 15 Sometimes we speak of ‘rogueing’ a crop, which means taking out the plants which aren't typical of the variety or which have become diseased. 2006 H. C. Flores vi. 150 Throughout the growing season go through and remove, or ‘rogue out’, what you don't want, including any diseased plants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.adj.1489 v.1570 |
