All 6 Uses of
rogue
in
The Taming of the Shrew
- A pair of stocks, you rogue!†
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- Y'are a baggage; the Slys are no rogues; look in the chronicles: we came in with Richard Conqueror.†
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- Here comes the rogue.†
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- — Off with my boots, you rogues! you villains! when?†
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- It was the friar of orders grey, As he forth walked on his way: Out, you rogue! you pluck my foot awry: [Strikes him.†
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- Come hither, you rogue.†
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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)