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Rogue vs Beggar - What's the difference?

rogue | beggar |

As nouns the difference between rogue and beggar

is that rogue is a scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person while beggar is a person who begs.

As verbs the difference between rogue and beggar

is that rogue is to cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard. Especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination while beggar is to make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

As an adjective rogue

is vicious and solitary.

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

    * ----

    beggar

    English

    (wikipedia beggar)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who begs.
  • * , chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
  • * 1983 , Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image , St. Augustine’s Press, p. 62:
    • Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar .
  • A person suffering from extreme poverty.
  • * 1883 , :
    • I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!

    Synonyms

    * (who begs) mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, spanger, truant * (extremely poor person) palliard, pauper, vagabond

    Derived terms

    * beggarly * beggarliness * beggar's-lice * beggar-tick * beggarweed * beggary * beggars can't be choosers

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
  • To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

    • Synonyms

    * ruin

    Derived terms

    * beggar-my-neighbor * beggar thy neighbor * beggar belief * beggar description

    Anagrams

    * English agent nouns