rogue
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
computing
engineering
horticulture
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Uncertain. From either:
* Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“to ask”).
* Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), for which see Icelandic hroki (“arrogance”), though OED does not document this.
* Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).
Inflected forms:
form: rogues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more rogue
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rogue
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rogues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: roguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rogueing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rogued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rogued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
pos: noun
examples: And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]
He had told more lies in his time, and undergone more baseness of stratagem in order to stave off a small debt, or to swindle a poor creditor, than would have sufficed to make a fortune for a braver rogue.
“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”
As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues, but the one who set the tone for entire series.
gloss: A mischievous scamp.
pos: noun
examples: Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!
gloss: A vagrant.
pos: noun
gloss: Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
pos: noun
examples: An entry in the Microsoft Malware Protection Center's Threat Research & Response Blog shows that rogue AV, also known as scareware, is ruling the malware roost, as 6 top of the 10 malicious programs removed by the MSRT (Malicious Software Removal Tool) in the US in October were 'rogues'.
Next, click the "Installed on" heading in the Windows 7 uninstaller to sort the list by date, and see if any programs have the same date and time stamps as your rogues.
Now though researchers at Microsoft's Malware Protection Center are reporting a downward trend in the traffic generated by some of the most popular rogues over the past 12 months.
gloss: An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
pos: noun
examples: If he is a rogue, and there's any truth to territoriality at all, we got a good chance of spotting him between Cape Scott and South Beach.
gloss: A horse, mule, or donkey that is difficult to control; a refractory horse, especially a racehorse.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The rogues among the horses and mules sought every chance to break the line and hide under shady trees where sweet grass grew.
gloss: A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
pos: noun
examples: 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
gloss: A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
pos: noun
examples: As a rogue, I weave together light and heavy attacks, sometimes holding a button longer to charge an attack and build up the stagger meter on an enemy.
gloss: Vicious and solitary.
pos: adj
examples: Mosquito. One lone rogue mosquito.
gloss: Large, destructive and unpredictable.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Deceitful, unprincipled.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
gloss: Mischievous, unpredictable.
pos: adj
examples: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
gloss: To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
pos: verb
examples: 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties, Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling or roguing. ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
Our skill as roguers was being tested. After we had rogued a field the field was inspected and the potatoes classified Stock Seed, A, B or H. In those days, between Stock seed and Class A, there was £2 per ton of potatoes difference.
gloss: To cheat.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact.
gloss: To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: he Atheists may endeavour to rogue and ridicule all incorporeal Substance
gloss: To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: if hee be but once so taken idlely roguing
Related words: rouge the shade of red
Derived words: archrogue
barrier rogue
comrogue
go rogue
outrogue
rogue access point
rogue apostrophe
roguedom
rogue elephant
rogue gallery
roguehood
roguelike
rogueling
rogue-lite
rogue money
rogue planet
rogue regime
roguery
rogues' gallery
rogueship
rogue state
rogue trader
rogue wave
roguey
roguish
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