rogue/rōɡ/Learn to pronounce See definitions in: All Zoology Horticulture: rogue; plural noun: rogues
- 1.a dishonest or unprincipled man.”you are a rogue and an embezzler”Similar:scoundrelvillainreprobaterascalgood-for-nothingwretchpicaroratbastardson of a bitchSOBnasty piece of workdogcurlousecrookscroteblighterspalpeenslickerscamphoundvagabondrotterboundercadne’er-do-wellmiscreantblackguarddastardknavevarletwastrelmountebankpicaroon
- a person whose behavior one disapproves of but who is nonetheless likable or attractive (often used as a playful term of reproof).”Cenzo, you old rogue!”Similar:scamprascalimpdevilmonkeymischief-makerscallywagmonsterhorrorterrorholy terrorperishertykescallyhellionvarmintscapegracerapscallion
- 2.an elephant or other large wild animal driven away or living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies.”a rogue elephant”
- a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant, faulty, or unpredictable way.”he hacked into data and ran rogue programs”
- an inferior or defective specimen among many satisfactory ones, especially a seedling or plant deviating from the standard variety.
verbverb: rogue; 3rd person present: rogues; past tense: rogued; past participle: rogued; gerund or present participle: roguing
- remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop).”the sowing has to be rogued to remove aberrant seedlings”
Phrasesgo rogue — behave erratically or dangerously, especially by disregarding the rules or the usual way of doing something.”leaders going rogue at press conferences can mean you have a serious problem”
Origin
mid 16th century (denoting an idle vagrant): probably from Latin rogare ‘beg, ask’, and related to obsolete slang roger ‘vagrant beggar’ (many such cant terms were introduced towards the middle of the 16th century).go roguephrase of rogue
- behave erratically or dangerously, especially by disregarding the rules or the usual way of doing something.”leaders going rogue at press conferences can mean you have a serious problem”