Meaning and Origin
What does the name Rogue mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
Origin and Meaning of Rogue
User Submitted Origins
English
65%
French
35%
User Submitted Meanings
- A submission from Nigeria says the name Rogue means "Red coloured".
- A submission from Romania says the name Rogue means "Proud, haughty" and is of French origin.
International Interest
Also see international interest
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Rogue
Senses
- [Eng.Law] A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
- A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat."The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise." [Pope.]
- One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment."Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!" [Shak.]
- An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
- [Hort] A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
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.
Etymology: F. rogue proud, haughty, supercilious; cf. Icel. hr�kr a rook, croaker (cf. Rook a bird), or Armor. rok rog, proud, arogant
verb Rogue
To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
verb Rogue
Senses
- To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.(Obs)
- [Hort] To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
Other Dictionary Sources
- A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Wiktionary
Uncertain. From either:
- Earlier English roger (“a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge”), possibly from Latin rogō (“I ask”).
- Middle French rogue (“arrogant, haughty”), from Old Northern French rogre (“aggressive”), from Old Norse hrokr (“excess, exuberance”), though OED does not document this.
- Celtic; see Breton rog (“haughty”).
- A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
- A mischievous scamp.
- A vagrant.
- (computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
- An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
- A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
- (role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
rogue was also found in the following language(s): French, Middle French, and Portuguese