| 单词 | to go a-roguing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go a-roguing 2. Roguish or mischievous behaviour; unscrupulousness, dishonesty; knavery. Also in † to go a-roguing (obsolete). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun] > action roguinga1625 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] truandise?c1225 lorelshipc1380 truantry1426 coquineryc1430 loselry1480 loonery?a1513 palliardrya1522 truanting1532 patchingc1535 patchery?1553 palliardy1568 roguishness1579 rascality1582 roguery1594 scutchery1594 ropery1599 scoundrelism1611 roguinga1625 friponnerie1708 rascalism1837 scoundreldom1837 scamphood1845 rascaldom1851 scoundrelship1856 rascalry1868 scallywaggery1897 scallywagism1897 scallywagging1915 a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iii. i. sig. G3 This was thy Rouging, For thou wert ever whispering: fye upon thee. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse iii. 50 You'll never leave Roguing, I see that. 1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example ii. ii You are going a rogueing. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 295 Nothing else but the Hopes of going a Roguing, brought him to do it. 1760 A. Murphy Way to keep Him i. 10 And then, when he's going a roguing, smiles impudently in your Face, and, ‘My Dear, divert yourself, I'm just going to kill half an Hour at the Chocolate-House.’ 1898 E. Brooke Confession of Stephen Whapshare 44 Ashley got what they're getten by railways and roguing. 1982 J. Seabrook Unemployment 115 If you want things, you have to go roguing. 2005 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 11 June 66 He created a bunch of rogues around him, some of whom couldn't escape jail as a result of their roguing. < as lemmas |
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