Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Yup, Sounds About Right to Me.


As defined by www.dictionary.com:

rogue [rogh] noun, verb, rogued, roguing, adjective

-noun

1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
2. a playfully mischievious person; scamp.
3. a tramp or vagabond.
4. a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition.
5. biology. A usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.

-verb (used without object)

6. to live or act as a rogue.

-verb (used with object)

7. to cheat.
8. to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard).
9. to perform this operation upon: to rogue a field.

-adjective

10. (of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant.
11. no longer obedient, belinging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable: deviating, renegade; a rogue cop; a rogue union local.

Origin:

1555-65; appar. short for obs. roger begging vagabond, orig. cant word

Synonyms:

1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack. See KNAVE.