n.
- a dishonest or unprincipled man.
▸a mischievous but likeable person.
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[usu. as modifier]
an elephant or other large wild animal with destructive tendencies driven away or living apart from the herd:
a rogue elephant.
▸a person or thing that is defective, aberrant, or unpredictable.
▸a seedling or plant deviating from the standard variety.
v.
remove rogue plants or seedlings from (a crop).
Derivative
- roguery n.
(pl. rogueries)
.
Etymology
C16 (denoting an idle vagrant): prob. from L. rogare ‘beg, ask’, and rel. to obs. sl. roger ‘vagrant beggar’.