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Roe vs Rog - What's the difference?

roe | rog |

As nouns the difference between roe and rog

is that roe is the eggs of fish while rog is intoxication through freebasing.

As proper nouns the difference between roe and rog

is that roe is {{surname|from=nicknames}}, from a Middle English nickname meaning a roe while Rog is a diminutive of the male given name Roger.

As a verb rog is

to shake.

roe

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from (etyl) .Wolfgang Pfeifer, ed., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen , s.v. “Rogen” (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2005).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (dialectal) * (l), (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-) (wikipedia roe)
  • The eggs of fish.
  • The sperm of certain fish.
  • The ovaries of certain crustaceans.
    • Quotations
    * 1988' : It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of '''roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 40)
    Synonyms
    * (sperm) milt
    Derived terms
    * hard roe * soft roe * white roe

    See also

    * caviar * egg

    References

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) ro, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-noun) (Roe Deer)
  • A small, nimble Eurasian deer, Capreolus capreolus , with no visible tail, a white rump patch, and a reddish summer coat that turns grey in winter, the male having short three-pointed antlers.
  • A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.
    • Synonyms
    * roe deer, chevreuil
    Derived terms
    * roebuck

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    rog

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of the male given name Roger .

    • Anagrams

    * * English diminutives of male given names