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rogue
[rohg] 
noun, verb, rogued, ro⋅guing, adjective –noun
| 1. | a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel. |
| 2. | a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues. |
| 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, belonging, 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
1555–65; appar. short for obs. roger begging vagabond, orig. cant word
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| rogue (rōg) n.
v. tr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants. [Origin unknown.] |
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Rogue
Rogue\, n. [F. rogue proud, haughty, supercilious; cf. Icel. hr?kr a rook, croaker (cf. Rook a bird), or Armor. rok, rog, proud, arogant.]1. (Eng.Law) A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp. Note: The phrase rogues and vagabonds is applied to a large class of wandering, disorderly, or dissolute persons. They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron. 2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. --Pope. 3. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment. Ah, you sweet little rogue, you! --Shak. 4. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage. 5. (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.Rogue
Rogue\, v. i. To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks. [Obs.] --Spenser.Rogue
Rogue\, v. t. 1. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. [Obs.] --Cudworth. 2. (Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
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Language Translation for : rogue
Spanish:
bribón, granuja,
German:
der Schurke,
Japanese:
ごろつき
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.
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 mispelled as "rouge". See also nethack, moria, Angband.
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rogue
1561, "idle vagrant," perhaps a shortened form of roger (with a hard -g-), thieves' slang for a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge, perhaps from L. rogare "to ask." Another theory traces it to Celtic (cf. Bret. rog "haughty"); OED says, "There is no evidence of connexion with F. rogue 'arrogant.' " Rogue's gallery "police collection of mug shots" is attested from 1859.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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rogue games
[Unix] 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 to support "rogue(6)" and has since become one of Unix's most important and heavily used application libraries. Nethack, Omega, Larn, and an entire subgenre of computer dungeon games all took off from the inspiration provided by "rogue(6)". See also nethack.
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