rogue /rōg/ noun- An unprincipled person, a rascal
- A prankster
- A mischievous person (often playfully or affectionately)
- A vagrant (archaic)
- A plant that falls short of a standard, or is of a different type from the rest of the crop
- A variation from type
- A horse, person or object that is troublesome, unruly or unco-operative
- A savage elephant or other wild animal which lives apart from or has been driven from its herd
adjective- Mischievous
- Disruptive
- Diverging from type
- Operating in disregard of the accepted regulations or system, as in a rogue state
intransitive verb To act or behave as a rogue transitive verb- To cheat
- To eliminate rogues or inferior plants from (a crop, etc)
ORIGIN: Cant; origin unknown roguer /rōgˈər/ noun rōgˈuery noun - Rascally tricks
- Mischievousness
- Joking
- Fraud
rogueˈship noun (archaic) roguing /rōgˈing/ adjective - Roaming (archaic)
- Behaving like a rogue
roguish /rōgˈish/ adjective - Rascally
- Mischievous
- Waggish
- Villainous
- Confounded
rogˈuishly adverb rogˈuishness noun rogˈuy adjective (obsolete) rogue money noun A former assessment in Scotland for the expense of catching, prosecuting and maintaining rogues rogues' gallery noun - A police collection of photographs of criminals
- Any group of disreputable people
rogues' Latin noun Cant rogues' march noun Derisive music played at a drumming-out rogue value noun (computing) A number or set of characters, outside the generally expected range, which is used to terminate a list of data items |