rogue
noun
[ rəʊɡ ]
• a dishonest or unprincipled man.
• "you are a rogue and an embezzler"
Similar:
scoundrel,
villain,
reprobate,
rascal,
good-for-nothing,
wretch,
picaro,
rat,
bastard,
son of a bitch,
SOB,
nasty piece of work,
dog,
cur,
louse,
crook,
scrote,
blighter,
spalpeen,
slicker,
scamp,
hound,
vagabond,
rotter,
bounder,
cad,
ne'er-do-well,
miscreant,
blackguard,
dastard,
knave,
varlet,
wastrel,
mountebank,
picaroon,
• an elephant or other large wild animal living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies.
• "a rogue elephant"
rogue
verb
• remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop).
• "the sowing has to be rogued to remove aberrant seedlings"
Origin:
mid 16th century (denoting an idle vagrant): probably from Latin rogare ‘beg, ask’, and related to obsolete slang roger ‘vagrant beggar’ (many such cant terms were introduced towards the middle of the 16th century).
go rogue
• behave erratically or dangerously, especially by disregarding the rules or the usual way of doing something.
• "leaders going rogue at press conferences can mean you have a serious problem"
