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Definition
not normal and possibly dangerous — possibly alone
The 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)
- Come, you rogue, come; bring me to a justice.5.4 — Act 5 Scene 4 — London. A street (84% in)
rogue = deceitful person
- ] A pox of this gout! or, a gout of this pox! for the one or the other plays the rogue with my great toe.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — London. A street (98% in)
- Wilt thou? wilt thou? thou bastardly rogue!2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — London. A street (25% in)
- Ah, thou honey-seed rogue! thou art a honey-seed, a man-queller, and a woman-queller.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — London. A street (27% in)
- Thou wo't, wo't thou? thou wo't, wo't ta? do, do, thou rogue! do, thou hemp-seed!2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — London. A street (29% in)
- Hang him, swaggering rascal! let him not come hither: it is the foul-mouthed'st rogue in England.2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap (19% in)
- Away, you mouldy rogue, away!2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap (32% in)
- He a captain! hang him, rogue! he lives upon mouldy stewed prunes and dried cakes.2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap (37% in)
- Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap (55% in)
- Alas, poor ape, how thou sweatest! come, let me wipe thy face; come on, you whoreson chops: ah, rogue! i' faith, I love thee: thou art as valorous as Hector of Troy, worth five of Agamemnon, and ten times better than the Nine Worthies: ah, villain!2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap (56% in)
- I will toss the rogue in a blanket.2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap (57% in)
- The rogue fled from me like quicksilver.2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — London. The Boar's-head Tavern in Eastcheap (59% in)
- I'll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swinged for this,—you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famished correctioner, if you be not swinged, I'll forswear half-kirtles.5.4 — Act 5 Scene 4 — London. A street (68% in)
There are no more uses of "rogue" in Henry IV, Part 2.
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