rogueryn.
/ˈrəʊɡ(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈroʊɡəri/ 1.
a. An action or practice characteristic of a rogue; a rascally act; a misdeed.
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > instance of
roguery1592
vagabundulo1631
rascality1691
scoundrelism1773
vagabondism1841
rascaldom1851
1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Huntington Libr. copy) Ep. to Printer As for a second part of Pierce Penilesse, it is a most ridiculous rogery.
1668 S. Pepys Diary 8 Feb. (1976) IX. 57 The ripping up of so many notorious rogueries and cheats of my Lord's.
1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 10 A Constable, and his Watch, crying out for one Wry-Neck, who it seems had done some Roguery.
1797 H. Lee Canterbury Tales I. 212 He has been in more rogueries than battles, I believe.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis (1850) I. v. 46 There are worse men..who have never committed half so many rogueries as he.
1879 R. Browning Ned Bratts in Idyls I. 91 Not a single roguery, from the cutting of a purse to the cutting of a throat, but paid us toll.
1905 E. H. Parker China & Relig. v. 117 They took advantage of their favoured position to connive at various rogueries with the Chinese merchants.
1963 W. Allen J. Cary iii. 19 Bonser is a manifestation of the invincible desperation of life and so, despite his rogueries, holds Tabitha always in thrall.
1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 28 Jan. 35/4 He knew the scoundrelly politician's one great secret, which is to turn all your rogueries into jokes and your shames into self-approvals.
b. Conduct characteristic of a rogue; rascally behaviour; misconduct. Formerly also: †the state or condition of being a tramp, vagrancy (obsolete).
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun]
truandise?c1225
lorelshipc1380
truantry1426
coquineryc1430
loselry1480
loonery?a1513
palliardrya1522
truanting1532
patchingc1535
foul play1546
patchery?1553
slavery1553
palliardy1568
smaikry1573
roguishness1579
rascality1582
roguery1594
scutchery1594
ropery1599
cullionry1611
scoundrelism1611
friponnerie1708
rascalism1837
scoundreldom1837
rascaldom1851
scoundrelship1856
rascalry1868
scallywaggery1897
scallywagism1897
scallywagging1915
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [noun] > instance of
rascality1582
roguery1594
foist1607
scoundrelism1611
vagabundulo1631
vagabondism1841
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun]
truandise?c1225
lorelshipc1380
truantry1426
coquineryc1430
loselry1480
loonery?a1513
palliardrya1522
truanting1532
patchingc1535
patchery?1553
palliardy1568
roguishness1579
rascality1582
roguery1594
scutchery1594
ropery1599
scoundrelism1611
roguinga1625
friponnerie1708
rascalism1837
scoundreldom1837
scamphood1845
rascaldom1851
scoundrelship1856
rascalry1868
scallywaggery1897
scallywagism1897
scallywagging1915
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > vagrancy or vagabondage
loitering1530
vacabuncy1535
vagabondry1547
vagabuncy1549
roguing1577
roguery1594
vagabondinga1628
vagrancy1706
vagrance1751
vagabondizing1755
vagabondage1813
vagabondism1822
vag1859
beachcombing1867
trampism1893
hoboism1930
1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C4 v On the experience of their pusellanimitie I thought to raise the foundation of my roguerie.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 124 Heeres lime in this sacke too: there is nothing but rogery to be found in villanous man. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Maraudise, beggerie, roguerie, idle knauerie,..vagabondrie.
c1620 J. Donne Poems (1633) 48 To live in one land, is captivitie, To run all countries, a wild roguery.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 97 Thus was discovered the roguerie of those Magitians.
1710 Duke of Marlborough Let. 15 Apr. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) III. 1456 The Emperor at last finding his rogary, would not put him to death which he might have, but was contented with dismissing him from his employment.
1745 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 356 I should have succeeded better, but for the folly and roguery of mankind.
1797 R. Southey Botany Bay Eclogues in Poems 92 When Roguery rules all the rest of the earth, God be thanked in this corner I've got a good birth.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. vii. 209 My neglect of my own duties tempted you to roguery.
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues III. 400 The unrighteous man..had far better not yield to the illusion that his roguery is cleverness.
1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 6/2 They urge more schooling as the grand cure for corrupt politics, although it is obvious that mere schooling may only enlarge the means of roguery.
1952 C. Hamilton Men of Underworld i. 12 He took a solemn oath to renounce roguery—a vow he apparently kept.
2001 J. Hickey in M. Hickey Irish Days (2004) 63 All kinds of roguery going on.
2. Playful mischief; waggishness; fun. Also: an instance of this.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun]
rampinga1425
daffing1535
May game1571
horseplay1590
hoiting1594
wantonizing1598
roguery1611
romperinga1625
hoity-toity1668
frolicking1676
frolic1677
romping1694
wantoning1701
vagary1791
skylarking1809
larking1813
rollicking1823
high-jinking1891
shenaniganning1924
grab-ass1948
mollocking1959
bants2008
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Drolerie, rye, waggerie, good roguerie.
1664 C. Cotton Scarronides 102 Cupid..Prepares him for his Roguery.
1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 548 The other Terrae filius, made up what was wanting..; full of waggery and roguery but of little wit.
1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 165 Lady Berkeley after dinner clapt my hat on another lady's head, and she in roguery put it upon the rails.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Roguery, waggery; arch tricks.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. on Shakespeare (1875) 91 As a father speaks of the rogueries of a child.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge ii. 245 The smile of one expecting to detect in this unpromising stranger some latent roguery of eye or lip.
1844 W. M. Thackeray Diary 2 Feb. (1945) II. 142 Was amused and disquieted by the energy, good humour, roguery & vulgarity of Balfe.
1905 R. Parrish Sword of Old Frontier xxviii. 294 The saucy minx, forgetful of everything, even in that perilous hour, except her roguery, flung back her hair coquettishly.
1938 P. Kavanagh Green Fool ix. 98 Without the little touches of roguery a cobbler is only a plain pedestrian thinker who can never scale the heights where fairies of every craft dwell.
2001 Social Probl. 48 186 Behavior can easily be irritating roguery in one generation or country and sexual harassment in another.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > world of
roguedom1697
roguery1707
loselism1831
rascaldom1833
scoundreldom1837
scoundrelry1859
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > collectively
roguedom1697
roguery1707
loselism1831
rascaldom1833
scoundreldom1837
scoundrelry1859
1707 W. Darrell Gentleman Instructed: 2nd Pt. v. 79 Such severe Laws, would no doubt disarm Vice, discourage Villany, and put all Roguery out of Countenance.
1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xxii. 379 A thing at which all Roguery rejoiced.
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the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [noun] > weed > collectively
weedOE
weeding1598
savagerya1616
weedery1642
roguery1763
weedage1853
weed growth1923
weed1934
1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 33 Keep the land plowing the whole following summer,..to keep down the roguery.
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1822 J. Galt Sir Andrew Wylie I. xxiii. 208 I kept a roguery for the supply of the London Market.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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