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Roger, n.2|ˈrɒdʒə(r)|
[A personal name of men, a. OF. Roger, Rogier, of Teut. origin, = OHG. Ruodegêr, Hrôdgêr.]
1. Used as a generic or special name for persons.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 75 The seruant obeyed, and (like a good trustie Roger) performed his Masters commandement. 1725New Cant. Dict., Roger,..likewise a Thief-taker. Ibid., Old Roger, the Devil. 1885Pudsey Olm. 19 (E.D.D.), T' next customer wor a roger.
2.
†a. Cant. A goose. Obs.
1567Harman Caveat (1869) 83 A Roger, or tyb of the buttery, a Goose. 1622Fletcher Beggar's Bush v. i, Surprizing a Boors ken, for grunting cheats! Prig. Or cackling Cheats? Hig. Or Mergery-praters, Rogers, and Tibs o' th' Buttery?
b. A ram. rare—1.
1762E. Collins Misc. 116 The Ram first wore that very Coat of thine. Shou'd Roger's Cast-off make thee proud or fine? [note. The Ram is by the Shepherd so call'd.]
3. slang.
a. (See quot. a 1700.)
Quot. 1653 seems to be a ghost.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xi. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Roger,..a Man's Yard. 1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 201. 1720 D'urfey Pills VI. 201 Here's a Health to the Queen, let's Bumpers take in hand, And may Prince G―'s Roger grow stiff again and stand. c1800Burns in Merry Muses of Caledonia (1959) 147 Bonie lassie, braw lassie, Will ye hae a soger? Then she took up her duddie sark, An' he shot in his Roger. c1863‘Philo Cunnus’ Festival of Passions ii. 25 With my right hand, I grasped my flaming Roger.
†b. A portmanteau. Obs.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew.
4. the Jolly Roger, the pirate's flag.
1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T. s.v. Roger, Jolly roger, a flag hoisted by pirates. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Jolly Roger, a pirate's flag; a white skull in a black field. 1883Stevenson Treas. Isl. iv. xix, There was the Jolly Roger—the black flag of piracy—flying from her peak. 1892Daily News 16 June 5/1 It was also pirated at once..by an American publishing company. The author was popular enough to be worth flying the Jolly Roger for.
5. E. Anglia. = Roger's blast.
1893in Cozens-Hardy Broad Norf. 12 Whenever I have heard the Broadland sirocco spoken of it has always been as ‘Sir Rodger’. 1895Patterson Man & Nat. 67 A sudden squall, a regular ‘Roger’,..strikes us; and heavy rain drops down from an overcast sky. 1899East Anglian Ser. iii. VIII. 127 ‘Roger's Blast.’.. At and around Hadleigh, Suff., it is called ‘a Roger’.
6. Also with small initial. As int. Used to represent the letter r (= received) in radio transmission (see quot. 1947). Also transf. in general use, an expression of affirmation.
1941Amer. Speech XVI. 168/1 Roger! Expression used instead of okay or right. (Air Corps). 1943Signal Training (All Arms): Signal Procedure I. 9 Roger, used to mean ‘message received’. 1945Sun (Baltimore) 25 Jan. 9 Sometimes a voice called, ‘Flak.’ Once I heard one pilot say, ‘Are you hit?’ The reply was, ‘Roger, I am hit. Going home.’ 1947Amer. Speech XXII. 110 In radio procedure the letter R, or roger, possesses the code designations ‘received’, or ‘I have received your message’, when signalled by the station addressed... Nevertheless, since radio operators or pilots signalling roger are receipting for a message, it has also come to mean unofficially ‘O.K.’ or ‘I understand’. 1954J. Masters Bhowani Junction xix. 170, I heard the duty officer on the R/T: ‘Dogfish Six speaking... Roger, over.’ 1960Sunday Express 18 Sept. 1/3 If he wanted to speak to you he would ask you to go in. Roger? 1963D. Irving Destruction of Dresden iii. ii. 132 ‘Tell the aircraft in top height band to come down below the medium cloud.’ ‘Roger.’ 1971D. Haston in C. Bonington Annapurna South Face xvii. 210 At first it had been a chore to use them [sc. radios] and the jargon of Roger, Over, etcetera, had seemed artificial, but sitting in the specific loneliness of Camp VI it was a good feeling to communicate with others. |