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Rogue vs Pogue - What's the difference?

rogue | pogue |

As verbs the difference between rogue and pogue

is that rogue is while pogue is .

rogue

English

(wikipedia rogue)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. […]”}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • As The Dark Knight Rises brings a close to Christopher Nolan’s staggeringly ambitious Batman trilogy, it’s worth remembering that director chose The Scarecrow as his first villain—not necessarily the most popular among the comic’s gallery of rogues , but the one who set the tone for entire series.
  • A mischievous scamp.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Ah, you sweet little rogue , you!
  • A vagrant.
  • Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself. (rfex)
  • An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
  • A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
  • * 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
    • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue .
  • (label) A conduct.

    • Synonyms

    * See

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Vicious and solitary.
  • (by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
  • (by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
  • * 2004: , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
    • In the minds of Republican hard-liners, the "Silent Majority" of Americans who had elected the President, and even Nixon's two Democrat predecessors, China was a gigantic nuke-wielding rogue state prepared to overrun the free world at any moment.
  • Mischievous, unpredictable.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Travels and travails , passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}

    Verb

    (rogu)
  • (horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
  • * 2000 Carol Deppe, Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties , Totnes: Chelsea Green Pub.
    • Maintaining varieties also requires selection, however. It's usually referred to as culling'' or ''roguing . ...we examine the [plant] population and eliminate the occasional rogue.
  • (obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
    • (Cudworth)
  • (obsolete) To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
    • (Spenser)
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * roguish * rogues' gallery * rogue state * rogue trader * rogue wave

    See also

    * rouge the shade of red

    Anagrams

    * ----

    pogue

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia pogue) (en noun)
  • (in Ireland ) A kiss
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= c1670 , year_published= 2003 , author= Anonymous , by= , title= Verse in English from Tudor and Stuart Ireland , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=p-9_YKUZLrkC&pg=PA416 , original= , chapter= Purgatorium Hibernicum , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Cork University Press , location= , editor= Andrew Carpenter , volume= , page= 416 , passage= 'Sure, sure' sayes Nees, 'she does but jeast, It's not de nature of de beast; Praise dee here, mee joly rogue, And gave de [me] one litle Poge For old acquaintance, for it's dee Dat is mee only gra-ma-cree.' 'Kiss mee? Poo! Fart upon dee, Nees!' }}
  • *{{quote-book
    • , year= c1707 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= Wit and Mirth: Or, Pills to Purge Melancholy: Being a Collection of the Best Merry Ballads and Songs, Old and New. Fitted to All Humours, Having Each Their Proper Tune for Either Voice, Or Instrument: Most of the Songs Being New Set. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=Eq4QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA278 , original= , chapter= , section = , isbn= , edition= , publisher= W. Pearson for J. Tonson , location= London , editor= , volume= 4 , page= 278 , passage= }}
  • (dated, slang) A purse; hence money
  • (US) A young, male, passive homosexual
  • (US) A soldier who is assigned administrative rather than combat duties

    • References

    * OED (online) 2008