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noun a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues.
a tramp or vagabond.
a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition.
Biology . a usually inferior organism, especially a plant, varying markedly from the normal.
SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (used without object), rogued, ro·guing. to live or act as a rogue.
verb (used with object), rogued, ro·guing. to cheat.
to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).
to perform this operation upon: to rogue a field.
SEE MORE SEE LESS adjective (of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant.
no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; renegade: a rogue cop; a rogue union local.
dangerous and unpredictable: a rogue snowstorm.
of or noting a nation or state that defies international treaties, laws, etc.: rogue states that threaten world peace.
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Origin of rogue First recorded in1555–65; origin uncertain, apparently short for obsolete roger “begging vagabond,” originally thieves' jargon
SYNONYMS FOR rogue 1 villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack.
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synonym study for rogue 1 . See knave.
OTHER WORDS FROM rogue outrogue, verb (used with object), out·rogued, out·ro·guing.
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH rogue rogue , rougeWords nearby rogue Rogers, Ginger, Roger's murmur, Rogers, Will, Roget, rognon, rogue , rogue dialler, rogue elephant, roguery, rogues' gallery, rogue's march
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Once he graduated in 2006, Simien took a job as a publicity assistant at Rogue , then a division of Focus Features.
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History has no shortage of rogue explorers seizing land, hoisting their flags, and building new societies.
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In the same year he wrote "Half a Rogue ," another highly popular story.
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The term "rogue " is scarcely sufficiently accounted for by supposing it to be the English equivalent for the Singhalese word Hora.
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“Ay, you must feel bitter hardly to the rogue that laid you here,” said Archer.
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So I sat there, in turn wondering if he were honest or a rogue , an adventurer or an idler, a river-man or a fop from Piccadilly.
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Here stands old Curry, who never talked to a rogue without telling him what he thought of him.
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British Dictionary definitions for rogue noun a dishonest or unprincipled person, esp a man; rascal; scoundrel
often jocular a mischievous or wayward person, often a child; scamp
a crop plant which is inferior, diseased, or of a different, unwanted variety
any inferior or defective specimen (as modifier ) rogue heroin archaic a vagrant
an animal of vicious character that has separated from the main herd and leads a solitary life (as modifier ) a rogue elephant SEE MORE SEE LESS verb (tr) to rid (a field or crop) of plants that are inferior, diseased, or of an unwanted variety to identify and remove such plants Word Origin for rogue C16: of unknown origin; perhaps related to Latin rogāre to beg
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