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rogue

Pronunciation: /ˈɹəʊɡ/

The English word “rogue” has 16 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  2. A mischievous scamp.
  3. A vagrant.
  4. Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
  5. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  6. A horse, mule, or donkey that is difficult to control; a refractory horse, especially a racehorse.
  7. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
  8. A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.

adjective

  1. Vicious and solitary.
  2. Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  3. Deceitful, unprincipled.
  4. Mischievous, unpredictable.

verb

  1. To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
  2. To cheat.
  3. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  4. To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

Etymology

Uncertain. From either: * Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“to ask”). * Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this. * Celtic; see…

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