All 9 Uses
rogue
in
King Lear
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- A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, superserviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou denyest the least syllable of thy addition.†
Scene 2.2
- Draw, you rogue: for, though it be night, yet the moon shines; I'll make a sop o' the moonshine of you: draw, you whoreson cullionly barbermonger, draw!†
Scene 2.2 *
- Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the king; and take vanity the puppet's part against the royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I'll so carbonado your shanks:—draw, you rascal; come your ways!†
Scene 2.2
- Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat slave, strike!†
Scene 2.2
- Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords a-twain Which are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passion That in the natures of their lords rebel; Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing naught, like dogs, but following.†
Scene 2.2
- None of these rogues and cowards But Ajax is their fool.†
Scene 2.2
- Let's follow the old earl, and get the Bedlam To lead him where he would: his roguish madness Allows itself to anything.†
Scene 3.7roguish = having the characteristics of a "rogue" (not behaving like others; often dangerous)
- Mine enemy's dog, Though he had bit me, should have stood that night Against my fire; and wast thou fain, poor father, To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn, In short and musty straw?†
Scene 4.7
- Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too,—Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out;—And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones That ebb and flow by the moon.†
Scene 5.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(rogue) someone or something that behaves in a dishonest, unpredictable, or independent way -- often breaking rules or acting outside the norm
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) someone without a home who travels from place to place.