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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024rogue /roʊg/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a dishonest person;
scoundrel:The rogue tried to sell them a very bad car. - a playful, mischievous child who likes to play tricks;
scamp:That little rogue has hidden herself somewhere in the house. - an animal that lives apart from others of its kind:a rogue elephant.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rogue (rōg),USA pronunciation n., v., rogued, ro•guing, adj. n. - 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.
- Genetics, Zoology[Biol.]a usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.
v.i. - to live or act as a rogue.
v.t. - 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.
adj. - Animal Behavior, Zoology(of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant.
- Animal Behaviorno longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable;
deviating, renegade:a rogue cop; a rogue union local.
- apparently short for obsolete roger begging vagabond, origin, originally cant word 1555–65
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack. See knave.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: rogue /rəʊɡ/ n - 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
vb - (transitive) to rid (a field or crop) of plants that are inferior, diseased, or of an unwanted variety
Etymology: 16th Century: of unknown origin; perhaps related to Latin rogāre to beg |