Rogue

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  • noun. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
  • noun. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
  • noun. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
  • noun. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
  • noun. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
  • adjective. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
  • adjective. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable.
  • adjective. Operating outside normal or desirable controls.
  • intransitive verb. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
  • intransitive verb. To remove diseased or abnormal plants.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To play the rogue; play knavish tricks.
  • To wander; tramp; play the vagabond.
  • To call (one) a rogue; denounce as a rogue; stigmatize as a cheat or impostor.
  • To cheat; injure by roguery.
  • To uproot or destroy, as plants which do not conform to a desired standard.
  • noun. A vagrant; a sturdy beggar; a tramp.
  • noun. A knave; a dishonest person; a rascal: applied generally to males.
  • noun. A sly fellow; a wag.
  • noun. A mischievous or playful person: applied in slight endearment to children or women. Compare roguish, 3.
  • noun. A rogue elephant (which see, under elephant).
  • noun. A plant that falls short of a standard required by nurserymen, gardeners, etc.
  • noun. Synonyms Cheat, sharper, scamp, swindler.
  • noun. A bait, used in the sardine fishery, consisting of an oily dough made of the roe and entrails of codfish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  • transitive verb. To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
  • intransitive verb. To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
  • noun. A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
  • noun. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
  • noun. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
  • noun. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
  • noun. A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
  • noun. a collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities.
  • noun. derisive music performed in driving away a person under popular indignation or official sentence, as when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment.
  • noun. yarn of a different twist and color from the rest, inserted into the cordage of the British navy, to identify it if stolen, or for the purpose of tracing the maker in case of defect. Different makers are required to use yarns of different colors.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  • noun. A mischievous scamp.
  • noun. A vagrant.
  • noun. Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
  • noun. An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  • noun. A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
  • adjective. Vicious and solitary.
  • adjective. Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  • adjective. Deceitful, unprincipled.
  • verb. To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
  • verb. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
  • Word Usage
    "One of the most terrifying sights in the animal world is an elephant in a state of must: Huge bulls, oozing a weird, foul-smelling, greenish glop from glands near their eyes, behave with violent abandon, taking risks and defying the basic rules of pachyderm propriety and also giving rise to the term "rogue elephant"."
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    Vogue  bogue  drogue  logue  pogue  
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    clever  cowardly  crafty  damn  greedy  
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    rogued  rogues