rogue
rogue is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 7 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. Pope.
- 2.One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Shak.
- 3.An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
- 4.(Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety. Rogues' gallery, a collection of portraits of rogues or criminals, for the use of the police authorities. -- Rogue's march, derisive music performed in driving away a person under popular indignation or official sentence, as when a soldier is drummed out of a regiment. -- Rogue's yarn, 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.
- 5.To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.] Spenser.
- 6.To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. [Obs.] Cudworth.
- 7.(Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abroad
- actor
- adventurer
- and
- archtraitor
- ass
- bad
- barrator
- betrayer
- bidder
- blackguard
- bungler
- bunko
- capper
- carpetbagger
- charlatan
- cheat
- clothing
- cockatrice
- conjuror
- conspirator
- crimp
- deceive
- deceiver
- decoy
- devil
- dissembler
- duck
- empiric
- faker
- false
- flusher
- four
- fraud
- grass
- gypsy
- home
- horse
- humbug
- hypocrite
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is rogue.
- What is a deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. Pope called?
- What is one who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! Shak called?
- What is an elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage called?
- What is to wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.] Spenser called?
- What is to give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. [Obs.] Cudworth called?
- What is to destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard) called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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