Definitions for Rogueroʊg

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

rogue*roʊg(n.; v.)rogued, ro•guing.

  1. (n.)a dishonest person; scoundrel.

  2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp.

  3. a tramp or vagabond.

  4. a rogue elephant or other animal.

  5. a usu. inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.

    Category: Genetics, Zoology

  6. (v.i.)to live or act as a rogue.

  7. (v.t.)to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).

  8. to perform this operation upon:

    to rogue a field.

* Syn: See knave.

Origin of rogue:

1555–65; earlier also roge, roag, perh. akin to rogation or L rogāre to ask

Princeton's WordNet

  1. rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet(noun)

    a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

Wiktionary

  1. rogue(Noun)

    A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

  2. rogue(Noun)

    A mischievous scamp.

  3. rogue(Noun)

    A vagrant.

  4. rogue(Noun)

    Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.

  5. rogue(Noun)

    An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.

  6. rogue(Noun)

    A plant that shows some undesirable variation.

  7. rogue(Verb)

    cull, term used by gardeners, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.

  8. rogue(Adjective)

    Vicious and solitary.

  9. rogue(Adjective)

    Large, destructive and unpredictable.

  10. rogue(Adjective)

    Deceitful, unprincipled.

  11. Origin: rogue, from rogre, from hrokr

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rogue(noun)

    a vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp

  2. Rogue(noun)

    a deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat

  3. Rogue(noun)

    one who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment

  4. Rogue(noun)

    an elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage

  5. Rogue(noun)

    a worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety

  6. Rogue(verb)

    to wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks

  7. Rogue(verb)

    to give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry

  8. Rogue(verb)

    to destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard)

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. rogue

    1. [Unix] n. A Dungeons-and-Dragons-like game using character graphics, written under BSD Unix and subsequently ported to other Unix systems. The original BSD curses(3) screen-handling package was hacked together by Ken Arnold primarily to support games, and the development of rogue(6) popularized its use; it has since become one of Unix's most important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega, Larn, Angband, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games (all known as ‘roguelikes’) all took off from the inspiration provided by rogue(6); the popular Windows game Diablo, though graphics-intensive, has very similar play logic. See also nethack, moria, Angband. 2. [Usenet] adj. An ISP which permits net abuse (usually in the form of spamming) by its customers, or which itself engages in such activities. Rogue ISPs are sometimes subject to IDPs or UDPs. Sometimes deliberately misspelled as “rouge”.


Translations for Rogue

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

rogue(noun)

a dishonest person

I wouldn't buy a car from a rogue like him.

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