In honor of the release of Sarah Palin's new book entitled, "Going Rogue", I would like to offer the definition of "rogue" provided by dictionary.com:
–noun1. | a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel. |
2. | a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues. |
4. | a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition. |
5. | Biology. a usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal. |
–verb (used without object)6. | to live or act as a rogue. |
–verb (used with object)8. | to uproot or destroy (plants, etc., that do not conform to a desired standard). |
9. | to perform this operation upon: to rogue a field. |
–adjective10. | (of an animal) having an abnormally savage or unpredictable disposition, as a rogue elephant. |
11. | no longer obedient, belonging, or accepted and hence not controllable or answerable; deviating, renegade: a rogue cop; a rogue union local. |
Origin: 1555–65; appar. short for obs.
roger begging vagabond, orig. cant word
Synonyms:1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack.
See knave. OK!! I literally posted that directly from the website and might I say, it seems like a fitting title to her new book.
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