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   Rogue

   /rōɡ/

   

   noun

   • 1. a dishonest or unprincipled man: "you are a rogue and an embezzler" Similar scoundrelvillainreprobaterascalgood-for-nothingwretchpicaroinformal:ratson of a bitchSOBnasty piece of workcurlousecrookscroteblighterspalpeenslickerscampderogatory:bastarddogdirty doginformal, dated:houndvagabondrotterbounderdated:cadne'er-do-wellarchaic:miscreantblackguarddastardknavevarletwastrelmountebankpicaroon
   • ▪ a person whose behavior one disapproves of but who is nonetheless likable or attractive (often used as a playful term of reproof): "Cenzo, you old rogue!" Similar scamprascalimpdevilmonkeymischief-makerinformal:scallywagmonsterhorrorterrorholy terrorperishertykescallyhellionvarmintarchaic:scapegracerapscallion
   • 2. an elephant or other large wild animal driven away or living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies: "a rogue elephant"
   • ▪ a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant, faulty, or unpredictable way: "he hacked into data and ran rogue programs"
   • ▪ an inferior or defective specimen among many satisfactory ones, especially a seedling or plant deviating from the standard variety.

   verb

   • 1. remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop): "the sowing has to be rogued to remove aberrant seedlings"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (denoting an idle vagrant): probably from Latin rogare ‘beg, ask’, and related to obsolete slang roger ‘vagrant beggar’ (many such cant terms were introduced towards the middle of the 16th century).

   Scrabble Points: 6

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