rogue
Meanings
Plural: rogues
Noun
- a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- A mischievous scamp.
- A vagrant.
- Malware that deceitfully presents itself as antispyware.
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
- A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
Adj
- Vicious and solitary.
- Large, destructive and unpredictable.
- Deceitful, unprincipled.
- Mischievous, unpredictable.
Verb
- To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
- To cheat.
- To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
- To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
Origin / 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 (“I 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”).
Synonyms
antimodel, bad guy, baddie, bastard, blackguard, bounder, cad, coistril, evildoer, fustilarian, harlot, heavy, knave, lidderon, makeshift, miscreant, ne'er-do-well, niding, nithing, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, scab, scalawag, scallywag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scum, scumbag, thug, undesirable, varlet, villain
Scrabble Score: 6
rogue is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordrogue is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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