roguishadj.

Brit.

/ˈrəʊɡɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈroʊɡɪʃ/

Forms: 1500s rogishe, 1500s rogyshe, 1500s–1600s roaguish, 1500s–1600s rogish, 1500s– rogueish, 1500s– roguish.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rogue n., -ish suffix¹.

Etymology: < rogue n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare earlier roguing adj.

a. Relating to or characteristic of a rogue; disreputable. Formerly also: †relating to or characteristic of a tramp or vagrant (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective]

pautenerc1330

palliard1484

limmer?a1513

limmerful?a1513

slovenly?1518

knavish1552

patchingc1555

rascal1566

roguing1566

knaifatic1568

roguish1572

rascally1586

land-loping1587

Scanderbegging1593

cullionly1608

rogorous1609

loseling1624

scoundrel1643

schelmish1654

pickled1683

rapscallionly1699

scoundrelish1705

rapscallion1711

pickle1774

scoundrelly1790

picaresque1822

furciferous1823

scapegrace1830

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective] > conduct

roguish1572

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] > specifically of actions, qualities, etc.

roguish1572

whelpish1586

rascally1587

loseling1624

scoundrel1681

scoundrelish1705

picaresque1822

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp

vagrant1461

loiteringa1533

way-walkinga1535

roguing1566

roguish1572

vagabondical1576

vagabond1585

vagabondinga1586

land-loping1587

vagrom1600

leap-land1614

vagabondial1615

vaguea1627

gangrel1650

vagabondious1661

going1737

gang-there-out1815

tramping1828

vagabondizing1830

pikey1838

beachcombing1845

runagate1877

going-about1886

bummy1890

1572 Act 14 Eliz. c. 5 §4 Yf..they..do eftsones fall againe to any kynde of Rogyshe or Vacabonde Trade of Lyef.

1592 R. Greene Blacke Bookes Messenger sig. B4^v So wee like two good Horse-corsers..swapt vp a Rogish bargaine.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 102 Lets..get the bedlom To lead him where he would, his rogish madnes Allows it selfe to any thing.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 360 I stayed in a Spaniards house..who kept a roguish Tauerne.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 8 Feb. (1976) IX. 57 Bought that idle, roguish book, L'escholle des Filles.

1709 T. D'Urfey Mod. Prophets ii. i. 18 Our Prophetical Design is only a Roguish Trick to disturb the Nation, and advance our own Profit.

1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. xxxiii. 286 I found some very artful, I may say roguish, schemes laid, to defraud me.

?1798 ‘P. Pindar’ Tales of Hoy 33 A Rogue, condemn'd to death, Resign'd (to please the Law) his roguish breath.

1817 Times 16 Oct. 3/2 I made some observations on their roguish proceedings; but I soon found it prudent to be silent.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro I. v. 73 His face was seamed, though it did not bear the peculiar scar which disfigured the countenance of the other; nor, though roguish enough, a certain evil expression which that of the other bore.

1920 L. Couperus tr. A. T. de Mattos Tour xv. 186 He beckoned to Caleb; and there was a mutual, smiling, roguish negotiation.

1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) ii. 34 I am pestered by roguish profiles, by some coarse-featured and florid dwarf with a swelling nostril or ear.

2009 Western Mail (Nexis) 22 Jan. 25 Why is it that, despite their rogueish and criminal ways, there has always been something of an air of romance around con artists?

†b. Indicating reprehension or disapproval: vile, wretched. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective]

theowlikec1175

wickc1175

wretcha1200

lechera1300

vilea1300

feeblea1325

brothely1330

caitiffa1400

roinousa1425

basec1450

harlotry1486

filthy1533

brockish1546

vild1568

tinkerly?1576

scabbed?1577

miscreant1593

unnoble1593

slavish1597

rascally1600

roguish1601

sordidous1602

facinoriousa1616

scullion1658

dirty1670

shabbed1674

shabby1679

scoundrel1681

scabby1712

verminating1720

small1824

low-down1865

verminiferous1895

ragtime1917

ribby1936

raunchy1937

scungy1966

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible

unworthc893

unwrastc893

littleOE

narrow-hearteda1200

wretcha1200

unworthya1240

wretchedc1250

un-i-wrastc1275

bad1276

lechera1300

feeblea1325

despisablea1340

villain1340

contemptiblec1384

lousyc1386

caitiff1393

brothelyc1400

roinousa1425

poor1425

sevenpennyc1475

nasty1477

peakish1519

filthy1533

despectuous1541

beggary1542

scald1542

shitten?1545

disdainfula1547

contemptuous1549

despicable1553

skit-brained?1553

contemniblea1555

vile1560

sluttish1561

queer1567

scornful1570

scallardc1575

tinkerly?1576

worthless1576

beggarly?1577

paltry1578

halfpenny1579

dog bolt1580

pitiful1582

sneaking1582

triobolar1585

wormisha1586

baddy1586

dudgeon1592

measled1596

packstaff1598

roguey1598

roguish1601

contemptful1608

grovelling1608

lightly1608

disdainable1611

purulent1611

snotty-nose1622

vilipendious1630

cittern-headed1638

wormy1640

pissabed1643

triobolary1644

disparageable1648

blue-bellied1652

unestimable1656

scullion1658

piteous1667

dirty1670

shabbed1674

shabby1679

snotty1681

snotty-nosed1682

mucky1683

bollocky1694

scoundrel1700

scaldeda1704

sneaking1703

ficulnean1716

unsolid1731

pitiable1753

scrubby1754

inimitable1798

scrubbish1798

worm-likea1807

small1824

lowlife1827

ketty1828

skunkish1831

yellow-bellied1833

scaly1843

cockroachya1845

wutless1853

nigger1859

trashy1862

low-down1872

cruddy1877

shitty1879

tinhorn1886

blithering1889

motherfucking1890

snidey1890

pilgarlicky1894

shitass1895

shoddy1918

yah boo1921

bitching1929

shit-faced1932

turdish1936

fricking1937

jerk-off1937

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

snot-nosed1941

jerky1944

mother-loving1948

scroungy1948

fecking1952

pissant1952

shit-kicking1953

shit-eating1956

bumboclaat1957

rassclaat1957

shit-headed1959

farkakte1960

shithouse1966

daggy1967

dipshit1968

scuzzy1969

bloodclaat1971

bitch ass1972

wanky1972

streelish1974

twatty1975

twattish1976

dweeby1988

douchey1991

wank1991

cockish1996

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. i. sig. G^v I marle what pleasure or felicitie they haue in taking this rogish Tabacco: it's good for nothing but to choake a man.

a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr2/1 Lord, how my head akes, with this roguish hat.

1684 in N. Thompson Choice Coll. Loyal Songs 235 By what Means, This Filthy Oates shall we e're cleanse? From all that Roguish Stuff, Sir?

2. That behaves like a rogue; villainous, unprincipled, dishonest. Formerly also: †that is a tramp or vagrant (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective]

pautenerc1330

palliard1484

varletc1485

knavisha1492

limmer?a1513

limmerful?a1513

briberous?1536

patchingc1555

rascal1566

roguing1566

roguish1575

arrant1581

skybala1585

rascally1586

land-loping1587

shag-ragc1590

Scanderbegging1593

Scanderbeg1601

rogorous1609

rogueya1627

scoundrel1643

schelmish1654

skelm1673

rapscallionly1699

rapscallion1711

scoundrelly1790

furciferous1823

scapegrace1830

1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. Ep. Ded. sig. Cv Uerie harde it were for suche a rowte of Rogishe liuers..to fill all places with the slaunderous shauinges of their deuelishe practises, were they not..winked at of suche as should them punishe.

a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 57 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The persons by whom it is used, be of better note then the former roguish sort, which you reckoned.

a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) lviii. 195 He abandoned and kept out of his house all roguish Players.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 159 A great Noise of roguish Moors, both Men and little Boys.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. xi. iii. 142 A Law very excellently calculated for the Preservation of the Lives of his Majesty's roguish Subjects.

1797 Anti-Jacobin 27 Nov. 15/2 Or roguish Lawyer made you lose your little All in a law-suit.

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxix. 210 As long..as England cannot keep her honest poor, so long will it be her interest to turn all her roguish poor out from her bosom.

1863 Confessions of Ticket-of-Leave Man 17 A roguish linen~draper..became bankrupt for £50,000.

1905 Westm. Rev. July 114 No plot could be simpler: a roguish shopkeeper cheated by a roguish lawyer.

1955 E. de T. Bechtel Jacques Callot 39 Scapino was the valet-type, cunning, avaricious, roguish.

2002 S. M. Bryan Jesus & Israel's Trad. of Judgement & Restoration ii. 33 The disturbances in first-century Palestine were idiosyncratic—the instigation of a rogueish few and not of the contented general populace.

3. Playfully mischievous; arch, waggish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [adjective] > mischievously joking

waggish1600

roguish1603

pawky?a1640

roguey1664

arch1684

slya1771

natkhat1843

wagsome1868

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 523 Cupid is a roguish God; his sporte is to wrestle with deuotion and to contend with iustice.

1665 R. Moray Let. 31 Aug. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 490 I hear nothing of the French Ambassadors pressing to begin one of those rogueish Jests you mention.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 13 The most bewitching Leer with her Eyes, the most roguish Cast.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶8 Will. Wimble..shews a thousand Roguish Tricks upon these Occasions.

1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. xxv The lad leap'd lightly at his master's call. He was, to weet, a little roguish page.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 17 Our lasies a' she far excels, An' she has twa sparkling, rogueish een.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 295 A trim, well made, tempting girl, with a roguish dimpling face.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xviii. 188 Codlin..eyeing the landlord as with a roguish look he held the cover in his hand.

1886 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xiii. 223 He made himself a favourite by roguish ways and ready wit.

1908 Smart Set June 50 Audrey in her blithesome way Would quip and jest with roguish glee.

2007 Esquire Oct. 112/3 Victoria Wicks played Sally, the uptight, emulsion-faced foil to Henry, the roguish, old-school anchorman on Globelink News.

†4. Of a plant: having the characteristics of a rogue (rogue n. 4); inferior, degenerate. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [adjective] > resembling or consisting of weed(s)

weedy?1585

weeden1599

weed-like1713

roguish1762

1681 New Ballad upon Dr. Oates 1 Should for a Roguish Weed be thrown Out of the Court, and now full blown Be in the Blossom Crop't?]

1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 472 There will always be, in every sort, some roguish plants, as the gardeners term them, which, if left to mix, will degenerate the kind.

1878 W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (ed. 2) xvi. 253 Borders of Ivy, sometimes with great roguish-looking Pansies inside them.

Compounds

Complementary, parasynthetic, and appositive, as roguish-looking, roguish-eyed, etc.

ΚΠ

a1813 M. W. Roberts Duty (1815) II. 85 She was a little roguish-looking dark thing.

1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley x With a sleek roguish-eyed priest.

1873 B. Harte Dolly Varden in Fiddletown 87 Trim~bodiced, bright-eyed, roguish-lipped.

1918 G. Frankau One of Them in Poet. Wks. (1923) II. xx. 127 That look, I ween, jade-eyed and roguish-comely.

1919 F. J. Finn Facing Danger xx. 168 He saw a smiling young man, cheerful, gay, roguish-eyed, yet haggard, travel stained.

2002 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 4 May 36 A roguish looking lion wearing a Union Jack football shirt.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	roguish
释义	roguishadj. Brit. /ˈrəʊɡɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈroʊɡɪʃ/ Forms: 1500s rogishe, 1500s rogyshe, 1500s–1600s roaguish, 1500s–1600s rogish, 1500s– rogueish, 1500s– roguish. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rogue n., -ish suffix¹. Etymology: < rogue n. + -ish suffix¹. Compare earlier roguing adj. 1. a. Relating to or characteristic of a rogue; disreputable. Formerly also: †relating to or characteristic of a tramp or vagrant (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 slovenly?1518 knavish1552 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 knaifatic1568 roguish1572 rascally1586 land-loping1587 Scanderbegging1593 cullionly1608 rogorous1609 loseling1624 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 pickled1683 rapscallionly1699 scoundrelish1705 rapscallion1711 pickle1774 scoundrelly1790 picaresque1822 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > [adjective] > conduct roguish1572 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] > specifically of actions, qualities, etc. roguish1572 whelpish1586 rascally1587 loseling1624 scoundrel1681 scoundrelish1705 picaresque1822 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > as a vagabond or tramp vagrant1461 loiteringa1533 way-walkinga1535 roguing1566 roguish1572 vagabondical1576 vagabond1585 vagabondinga1586 land-loping1587 vagrom1600 leap-land1614 vagabondial1615 vaguea1627 gangrel1650 vagabondious1661 going1737 gang-there-out1815 tramping1828 vagabondizing1830 pikey1838 beachcombing1845 runagate1877 going-about1886 bummy1890 1572 Act 14 Eliz. c. 5 §4 Yf..they..do eftsones fall againe to any kynde of Rogyshe or Vacabonde Trade of Lyef. 1592 R. Greene Blacke Bookes Messenger sig. B4^v So wee like two good Horse-corsers..swapt vp a Rogish bargaine. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 102 Lets..get the bedlom To lead him where he would, his rogish madnes Allows it selfe to any thing. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 360 I stayed in a Spaniards house..who kept a roguish Tauerne. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 8 Feb. (1976) IX. 57 Bought that idle, roguish book, L'escholle des Filles. 1709 T. D'Urfey Mod. Prophets ii. i. 18 Our Prophetical Design is only a Roguish Trick to disturb the Nation, and advance our own Profit. 1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain I. xxxiii. 286 I found some very artful, I may say roguish, schemes laid, to defraud me. ?1798 ‘P. Pindar’ Tales of Hoy 33 A Rogue, condemn'd to death, Resign'd (to please the Law) his roguish breath. 1817 Times 16 Oct. 3/2 I made some observations on their roguish proceedings; but I soon found it prudent to be silent. 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro I. v. 73 His face was seamed, though it did not bear the peculiar scar which disfigured the countenance of the other; nor, though roguish enough, a certain evil expression which that of the other bore. 1920 L. Couperus tr. A. T. de Mattos Tour xv. 186 He beckoned to Caleb; and there was a mutual, smiling, roguish negotiation. 1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) ii. 34 I am pestered by roguish profiles, by some coarse-featured and florid dwarf with a swelling nostril or ear. 2009 Western Mail (Nexis) 22 Jan. 25 Why is it that, despite their rogueish and criminal ways, there has always been something of an air of romance around con artists? †b. Indicating reprehension or disapproval: vile, wretched. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [adjective] theowlikec1175 wickc1175 wretcha1200 lechera1300 vilea1300 feeblea1325 brothely1330 caitiffa1400 roinousa1425 basec1450 harlotry1486 filthy1533 brockish1546 vild1568 tinkerly?1576 scabbed?1577 miscreant1593 unnoble1593 slavish1597 rascally1600 roguish1601 sordidous1602 facinoriousa1616 scullion1658 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 scoundrel1681 scabby1712 verminating1720 small1824 low-down1865 verminiferous1895 ragtime1917 ribby1936 raunchy1937 scungy1966 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor iii. i. sig. G^v I marle what pleasure or felicitie they haue in taking this rogish Tabacco: it's good for nothing but to choake a man. View more context for this quotation a1640 F. Beaumont et al. Loves Cure ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Rrrrr2/1 Lord, how my head akes, with this roguish hat. 1684 in N. Thompson Choice Coll. Loyal Songs 235 By what Means, This Filthy Oates shall we e're cleanse? From all that Roguish Stuff, Sir? 2. That behaves like a rogue; villainous, unprincipled, dishonest. Formerly also: †that is a tramp or vagrant (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 varletc1485 knavisha1492 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 briberous?1536 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 roguish1575 arrant1581 skybala1585 rascally1586 land-loping1587 shag-ragc1590 Scanderbegging1593 Scanderbeg1601 rogorous1609 rogueya1627 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 skelm1673 rapscallionly1699 rapscallion1711 scoundrelly1790 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 1575 J. Banister Needefull Treat. Chyrurg. Ep. Ded. sig. Cv Uerie harde it were for suche a rowte of Rogishe liuers..to fill all places with the slaunderous shauinges of their deuelishe practises, were they not..winked at of suche as should them punishe. a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 57 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) The persons by whom it is used, be of better note then the former roguish sort, which you reckoned. a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) lviii. 195 He abandoned and kept out of his house all roguish Players. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 159 A great Noise of roguish Moors, both Men and little Boys. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia IV. xi. iii. 142 A Law very excellently calculated for the Preservation of the Lives of his Majesty's roguish Subjects. 1797 Anti-Jacobin 27 Nov. 15/2 Or roguish Lawyer made you lose your little All in a law-suit. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxix. 210 As long..as England cannot keep her honest poor, so long will it be her interest to turn all her roguish poor out from her bosom. 1863 Confessions of Ticket-of-Leave Man 17 A roguish linen~draper..became bankrupt for £50,000. 1905 Westm. Rev. July 114 No plot could be simpler: a roguish shopkeeper cheated by a roguish lawyer. 1955 E. de T. Bechtel Jacques Callot 39 Scapino was the valet-type, cunning, avaricious, roguish. 2002 S. M. Bryan Jesus & Israel's Trad. of Judgement & Restoration ii. 33 The disturbances in first-century Palestine were idiosyncratic—the instigation of a rogueish few and not of the contented general populace. 3. Playfully mischievous; arch, waggish. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [adjective] > mischievously joking waggish1600 roguish1603 pawky?a1640 roguey1664 arch1684 slya1771 natkhat1843 wagsome1868 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. v. 523 Cupid is a roguish God; his sporte is to wrestle with deuotion and to contend with iustice. 1665 R. Moray Let. 31 Aug. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 490 I hear nothing of the French Ambassadors pressing to begin one of those rogueish Jests you mention. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar i. i. 13 The most bewitching Leer with her Eyes, the most roguish Cast. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 269. ¶8 Will. Wimble..shews a thousand Roguish Tricks upon these Occasions. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. xxv The lad leap'd lightly at his master's call. He was, to weet, a little roguish page. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 17 Our lasies a' she far excels, An' she has twa sparkling, rogueish een. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 295 A trim, well made, tempting girl, with a roguish dimpling face. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xviii. 188 Codlin..eyeing the landlord as with a roguish look he held the cover in his hand. 1886 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. xiii. 223 He made himself a favourite by roguish ways and ready wit. 1908 Smart Set June 50 Audrey in her blithesome way Would quip and jest with roguish glee. 2007 Esquire Oct. 112/3 Victoria Wicks played Sally, the uptight, emulsion-faced foil to Henry, the roguish, old-school anchorman on Globelink News. †4. Of a plant: having the characteristics of a rogue (rogue n. 4); inferior, degenerate. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > valued plants and weeds > [adjective] > resembling or consisting of weed(s) weedy?1585 weeden1599 weed-like1713 roguish1762 1681 New Ballad upon Dr. Oates 1 Should for a Roguish Weed be thrown Out of the Court, and now full blown Be in the Blossom Crop't?] 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 472 There will always be, in every sort, some roguish plants, as the gardeners term them, which, if left to mix, will degenerate the kind. 1878 W. Robinson Parks & Gardens Paris (ed. 2) xvi. 253 Borders of Ivy, sometimes with great roguish-looking Pansies inside them. Compounds Complementary, parasynthetic, and appositive, as roguish-looking, roguish-eyed, etc. ΚΠ a1813 M. W. Roberts Duty (1815) II. 85 She was a little roguish-looking dark thing. 1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley x With a sleek roguish-eyed priest. 1873 B. Harte Dolly Varden in Fiddletown 87 Trim~bodiced, bright-eyed, roguish-lipped. 1918 G. Frankau One of Them in Poet. Wks. (1923) II. xx. 127 That look, I ween, jade-eyed and roguish-comely. 1919 F. J. Finn Facing Danger xx. 168 He saw a smiling young man, cheerful, gay, roguish-eyed, yet haggard, travel stained. 2002 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 4 May 36 A roguish looking lion wearing a Union Jack football shirt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1572
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