Friday, November 20, 2009

♫We Gotta Get Out of this Place ♫♪

rogue
n.
1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
2. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
3. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
4. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
adj.
1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).
v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues
v.tr.
1. To defraud.
2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

I checked dictionaries from several publishers, and found they more or less agreed in their definitions. The lone exception I found in the Unabridged Concise True American Dictionary, Murdoch Mifflin, Inc., New York-London-Melbourne published last week which gives

rogue n.

1. a mischievously refreshing conservative
2. an innovative advocate of traditional values
3. one who is playfully responsive to corporate stewardship

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