All 5 Uses of
rogue
in
Treasure Island
- "I'll show these rogues that I'm an honest woman," said my mother.†
Chpt 4
- You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself.†
Chpt 11 *
- We had entirely forgotten the long nine; and there, to our horror, were the five rogues busy about her, getting off her jacket, as they called the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed.†
Chpt 17
- Alongside lay one of the gigs, Silver in the stern-sheets—him I could always recognize—while a couple of men were leaning over the stern bulwarks, one of them with a red cap—the very rogue that I had seen some hours before stride-legs upon the palisade.†
Chpt 22
- The rogues looked at each other but swallowed the home-thrust in silence.†
Chpt 30
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)