rogue

rogue  (rg)

n.

1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.

2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.

3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.

4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.

5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

adj.

1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.

2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.

3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).

v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues

v.tr.

1. To defraud.

2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

v.intr.

To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

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rogue

Noun

1. a dishonest or unprincipled person

2. a mischievous person

3. a crop plant which is inferior, diseased, or of a different variety

4. an inferior or defective specimen

Adjective

1. (of a wild animal) having a savage temper and living apart from the herd: a rogue elephant

2. inferior or defective: rogue heroin [origin unknown]

roguish adj

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

rogue - a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel knave, rapscallion, rascal, varlet, scalawag, scallywag scoundrel, villain - a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately

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rogue

noun 1. scoundrel, crook (informal) villain, fraudster, sharper, fraud, cheat, devil, deceiver, charlatan, con man (informal) swindler, knave (archaic) ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scumbag (slang) blackguard, mountebank, grifter (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. skelm S. African rorter Austral. (slang) wrong 'un Austral. (slang)

noun 2. scamp, rascal, scally Northwest English (dialect) rapscallion, nointer Austral. (slang)

Translations

rogue [rəug] n → pícaro, pillo

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rogue [rəug] n → coquin(e)

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rogue [rəug] n → Gauner m

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rogue [rəug] n → mascalzone m

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rogue

n rogue [rəug]

1 a dishonest person I wouldn't buy a car from a rogue like him. skurk وَغْد мошеник darebák gavtyv der Schurke απατεώνας bribón, granuja petis آدم دغل؛ رند roisto gredin נוֹכֵל आवारा hulja, nitkov gazember bajingan þrjótur farabutto, furfante ごろつき 사기꾼 niekšas nelietis; blēdis tidak tulus schurk kjeltring, svindler oszust vigarista pungaş жулик darebák falot vragolan bov, skurk คนไม่ซื่อ düzenbaz, dalavereci 流氓 пройдисвіт بے ایمان kẻ lừa đảo 流氓

2 a mischievous person, especially a child She's a little rogue sometimes. karnallie ماكِر، مُحْتال пакостник uličník, -ice gavtyveagtig der Schelm κατεργάρης pillo, pícaro kelm بی خانمان و آواره vintiö polisson/-onne שוֹבָב अड़ियल जानवर घोड़ा, हाथी vragoljan, nestaško gazfickó anak nakal prakkari monello いたずらっ子 개구쟁이, 장난꾸러기 nenaudėlis palaidnis nakal schelm skøyer łobuz malandrete ştrengar проказник uličník, -ica porednež vragolan skälm, kanalje คนเกเร afacan, maskara 小淘氣 шибеник شرارتی thằng ranh con 小淘气