rogueyadj.

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie In Lectores sig. B2 Goe buy..some rogie thing Which thou maist chaunt vnto the chamber-maid.

a1625 J. Fletcher Pilgrim iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ggggg4/2 If I had open'd this when it was given me, This Roguy Box.

1631 B. Jonson Bartholmew Fayre i. iv. 9 in Wks. II The blacke boy in Bucklers-bury, that takes the scury, roguy tobacco, there.

1680 R. L'Estrange Short Answer Litter of Libels 6 Discoursing the Roguy Contrivances that were made use of for the gaining of Subscriptions to a Petition.

1705 R. Pitt Frauds Common Pract. Physick 94 What will this Reformation of the Receipts of the Medicines..avail us, when the Apothecaries will unreform them by the Roguy Mystery of compounding them out of the Sweepings of the Druggists Shops?

1745 Coll. Voy. & Trav. I. iii. iv. 526/2 Divers pass up and down with pipes and roguy fiddles in boats full of fruit, sherbets, and good banqueting stuff to sell.

1852 Daily Free Democrat (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 12 May It was a roguey trick.

1899 B. W. Green Word-bk. Virginia Folk-speech 308 He has a roguy look.

a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) iii. i. 32 To light upon a roguy flight of Thieves.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico v. 131 A few men of the poorest roguey sort of Hereticks.

1680 J. Crowne Misery Civil-war i. 6 A Roguy Lawyer Will ruine all again with a meer quirk.

a1703 E. Filmer Def. Plays (1707) 35 Keep those roguy Players at Arms length.

1713 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 14 Mar. (1948) II. 638 I doubt I shall not buy the Library, for a Roguy Bookseller has offered 60ll more than I designed to give.

1744 T. Odell Prodigal ii. ii. 23 The Liberty of cuckolding your Husband? for that it comes to; to receive Visits, and meet damn'd roguy Whoremasters, which they call Admirers.

1889 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 8 July Thro' a hole In the bottom Some roguey chap got 'em.

1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 97 [This Cupid would] do a Thousand Roguy Tricks.

1692 R. L'Estrange Fables lxxiv. 73 A Shepherd Boy had gotten a Roguy Trick of crying [a Wolfe, a Wolfe] when there was No such Matter.

a1704 T. Brown Lett. to Gentlemen & Ladies in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) ii. 90 My dear Child, thou hast a smiling roguy Air.

?1790 A. Macdonald Laura II. 7 These roguy eyes of thine—and pretty lips.

1903 Mansfield (Ohio) News 7 Feb. 10/5 Wasn't he a roguey rascal And a naughty little elf, Lying there and mixing up things Just to suit his dainty self?

1998 Daily Mirror 29 July 6 The very fine Irish actor, as ambitious as they come, dropped out of the number one TV sitcom Bread, based on a roguey Liverpool family.