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English

Etymology

Uncertain. From either:

• Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rog? (“I ask”).
• Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), though OED does not document this.
• Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?g, IPA^(key): /??????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o???/
• Rhymes: -???

Noun

rogue (plural rogues)

1. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
   • 1834, Sir Walter Scott, The abbott: being a sequel to The monastery, Volume 19

     And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what popish trangam you were wearing […]

   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[2]

     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.

2. A mischievous scamp.
3. A vagrant.
4. (computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
5. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
6. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
   • 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.

7. (role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:villain

Translations

Adjective

rogue (comparative more rogue, superlative most rogue)

1. (of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
2. (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
3. (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
   • 2004: Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage

     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.

4. Mischievous, unpredictable.

Translations

Verb

rogue (third-person singular simple present rogues, present participle roguing or rogueing, simple past and past participle rogued)

1. (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
   • 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.

2. (transitive, dated) To cheat.
   • 1883, Prairie Farmer (volume 55, page 29)

     And then to think that Mark should have rogued me of five shiners! He was clever—that's a fact.

3. (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cudworth to this entry?)

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

Derived terms

See also

• rouge the shade of red

Anagrams

• orgue, rouge

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/

Etymology 1

From Middle French rogue, from Old Northern French *rogue (“fish eggs”), from Old Norse hrogn (“roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugn? (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“spawn, frogspawn”). More at roe.

Noun

rogue f (plural rogues)

1. roe (fish eggs)

Etymology 2

From Middle French rogue, from Old French rogre (“haughty; aggressive; exhilarated”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess; insolence”). Cognate with Icelandic hrokur (“arrogance”).

Adjective

rogue (plural rogues)

1. haughty
2. contemptuous
3. roguish

Further reading

• “rogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French rogre (“haughty; aggressive; exhilarated”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess; insolence”). Cognate with Icelandic hrokur (“arrogance”).

Adjective

rogue m or f (plural rogues)

1. arrogant; haughty

Portuguese

Verb

rogue

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of rogar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of rogar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of rogar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of rogar

English

Etymology

From Middle English roobukke; equivalent to roe +? buck (“male deer”). Doublet of rhebok.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.b?k/

Noun

roebuck (plural roebucks)

1. A male roe deer.
   • 1807 Walter Scott, The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. 4, "Cadyow Castle":

     From the thick copse the roebucks bound,

     The startled red-deer scuds the plain […]

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