All 10 Uses of
rogue
in
The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Rogues, hence, avaunt! vanish like hailstones, go; Trudge, plod away o' hoof; seek shelter, pack!†
Scene 1.3
- Falstaff will learn the humour of this age; French thrift, you rogues; myself, and skirted page.†
Scene 1.3
- I never heard such a drawling, affecting rogue.†
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- I do not think the knight would offer it; but these that accuse him in his intent towards our wives are a yoke of his discarded men; very rogues, now they be out of service.†
Scene 2.1
- Reason, you rogue, reason.†
Scene 2.2
- You'll not bear a letter for me, you rogue!†
Scene 2.2
- I, I, I myself sometimes, leaving the fear of God on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your bold-beating oaths, under the shelter of your honour!†
Scene 2.2
- I will use her as the key of the cuckoldly rogue's coffer; and there's my harvest-home.†
Scene 2.2
- Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue!†
Scene 2.2
- The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drowned a blind bitch's puppies, fifteen i' the litter; and you may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; if the bottom were as deep as hell I should down.†
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Definition:
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(rogue) not normal and possibly dangerous -- possibly aloneThe exact meaning of rogue can depend upon its context. For example:
- "a rogue state" -- (politics) a dangerous country that ignores international conventions
- "a rogue animal" -- (especially of an elephant) dangerous and not living with or like its kind
- "a rogue trader" -- (finance) an employee who makes unauthorized and improper securities trades
- "a rogue wave" -- (oceanography) a dangerous wave that is much larger than others around it
- "rogue cells" -- (biology) tumor cells
- "He is a rouge." -- someone who is deceitful and unprincipled (though possibly liked despite that)