rogue

UK: /ˈrəʊg/ US: /roʊg/ ,(rōg)

Inflections of 'rogue' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

rogues

v 3rd person singular

roguing

v pres p

rogued

v past

rogued

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

rogue /roʊg/   n. [countable]

1. a dishonest person;
   scoundrel:
   The rogue tried to sell them a very bad car.
2. a playful, mischievous child who likes to play tricks;
   scamp:
   That little rogue has hidden herself somewhere in the house.
3. an animal that lives apart from others of its kind:
   a rogue elephant.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

rogue  (rōg), n., v., rogued, ro•guing, adj. 
n. 

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. Genetics, Zoology [Biol.] a usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal.

v.i. 
6. to live or act as a rogue.

v.t. 
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.

adj. 
10. Animal Behavior, Zoology (of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant.
11. Animal Behavior no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable;
    deviating, renegade:
    a rogue cop; a rogue union local.
• apparently short for obsolete roger begging vagabond, origin, originally cant word 1555–65
Synonyms
• 1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack. See knave. 

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

rogue / rəʊɡ/ noun

1. a dishonest or unprincipled person; rascal; scoundrel
2. a mischievous or wayward person, often a child; scamp
3. a crop plant which is inferior, diseased, or of a different, unwanted variety
4. any inferior or defective specimen
5. (as modifier): rogue heroin
6. a vagrant
7. an animal of vicious character that has separated from the main herd and leads a solitary life
8. (as modifier): a rogue elephant

verb

1. (transitive) to rid (a field or crop) of plants that are inferior, diseased, or of an unwanted variety

Etymology: 16th Century: of unknown origin; perhaps related to Latin rogāre to beg