All 20 Uses of
rogue
in
Henry IV, Part 1
- The virtue of this jest will be, the incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this lies the jest.†
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- Well, I doubt not but to die a fair death for all this, if I 'scape hanging for killing that rogue.†
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- I have forsworn his company hourly any time this two-and-twenty year, and yet I am bewitch'd with the rogue's company.†
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- An 'twere not as good a deed as drink, to turn true man, and to leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed with a tooth.†
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- Give me my horse, you rogues; give me my horse, and be hang'd!†
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- Out, ye rogue! shall I be your ostler?†
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- You lie, ye rogue; 'tis going to the King's tavern.†
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- How the rogue roar'd!†
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- What a frosty-spirited rogue is this!†
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- Away, you rogue! dost thou not hear them call?†
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- — Give me a cup of sack, rogue.†
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- You rogue, here's lime in this sack too
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- You rogue, here's lime in this sack too: there is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man: yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it, a villanous coward.†
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- —Give me a cup of sack: I am a rogue, if I drunk to-day.†
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- I am a rogue, if I were not at half-sword with a dozen of them two hours together.†
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- You rogue, they were bound, every man of them; or I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew.†
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- Nay, that's past praying for: I have pepper'd two of them; two I am sure I have paid, two rogues in buckram suits.†
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- Four rogues in buckram let drive at me,— PRINCE.†
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- Out, ye rogue!†
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- I'll procure this fat rogue a charge of foot; and I know his death will be a march of twelve-score.†
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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)