rogue

rogue
    n 1: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: {rogue},
         {knave}, {rascal}, {rapscallion}, {scalawag}, {scallywag},
         {varlet}]
    

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.
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   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.
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   2. A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
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            The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. --Pope.
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   3. One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence,
      often used as a term of endearment.
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            Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!      --Shak.
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   4. An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about
      alone, in which state it is very savage.
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   5. (Hort.) A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some
      choice variety.
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   {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.
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Rogue \Rogue\, v. i.
   To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
   [Obs.] --Spenser.
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Rogue \Rogue\, v. t.
   1. To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
      [Obs.] --Cudworth.
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   2. (Hort.) To destroy (plants that do not come up to a
      required standard).
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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}, {moria}, {Angband}.

   2. [Usenet] adj. An {ISP} which permits net abuse (usually in the form
   of {spam}ming) by its customers, or which itself engages in such
   activities. Rogue ISPs are sometimes subject to {IDP}s or {UDP}s.
   Sometimes deliberately misspelled as "rouge".
    

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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ROGUE. A French word, which in that language signifies proud, arrogant. In 
some of the ancient English statutes it means an idle, sturdy beggar, which 
is its meaning in law. Rogues are usually punished as vagrants. Although the 
word rogue is a word of reproach, yet to charge one as a rogue is not 
actionable.  5 Binn. 219. See 2 Dev. 162 Hardin, 529. 
    

102 Moby Thesaurus words for "rogue":
      SOB, bad boy, balker, balky horse, bastard, blackguard, blighter,
      booger, bounder, buffoon, bugger, bum, cad, charlatan, cheat,
      churl, contumacious, creep, crock, cross-grained, crowbait, cur,
      cutup, dastard, devil, disobedient, dog, elf, enfant terrible,
      fractious, funmaker, garron, goat, good-for-nothing, hack,
      headstrong, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, imp, incorrigible,
      independent, intractable, jade, joker, jokester, jughead, knave,
      lawless, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, louse, minx,
      mischief, mischief-maker, miscreant, mountebank, nag, pixie, plug,
      practical joker, prankster, precious rascal, puck, rampageous,
      rapscallion, rascal, rat, recalcitrant, refractory, roarer,
      rosinante, rotter, rowdy, ruffian, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace,
      scoundrel, self-willed, shyster, sneak, spalpeen, stiff, stinker,
      strong-willed, swindler, trickster, uncontrollable, undisciplined,
      ungovernable, unmanageable, unpredictable, unrestrained, unruly,
      villain, wag, wastrel, whistler, wild, wretch