Word Meanings - ROGUE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
Additional info about word: ROGUE
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. (more info) a rook, croaker , or Armor. rok, rog, proud,
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROGUE)
- Caitiff
- Rascal
- miscreant
- rogue
- churl
- villain
- ruffian
- Rogue
- scoundrel
- vagabond
- scamp
- knave
- Vagabond
- Wanderer
- vagrant
- tramp
Related words: (words related to ROGUE)
- KNAVESS
A knavish woman. Carlyle. - SCAMPER
To run with speed; to run or move in a quick, hurried manner; to hasten away. Macaulay. The lady, however, . . . could not help scampering about the room after a mouse. S. Sharpe. (more info) campus the field . See Camp, and cf. Decamp, Scamp, - RASCALITY
1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson. - VAGRANTNESS
State of being vagrant; vagrancy. - CHURL
husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow - ROGUERY
1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness. - SCOUNDRELISM
The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave. - KNAVERY
Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl. - VAGABONDAGE
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy. - SCAMPAVIA
A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century. - TRAMP
Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, 1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp - VILLAINOUS
1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine - RASCALLY
Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift. - VAGABONDISM
Vagabondage. - RUFFIANLIKE
Ruffianly. Fulke. - ROGUE
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 - RUFFIANISH
Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly. - VAGABONDIZE
To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness. - SCOUNDREL
A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a man without honor or virtue. Go, if your ancient, but ignoble blood Has crept through soundrels ever since the flood. Pope. (more info) scouner, to loathe, to disgust, akin to AS. scunian to shun. - ROGUESHIP
The quality or state of being a rogue. "Your rogueship." Dryden. - OUTVILLAIN
To exceed in villainy. - DISCAMP
To drive from a camp. Holland. - BROGUES
Breeches. Shenstone.