Tuesday, November 17, 2009

In Honor Of Palin...

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:

–noun
1.a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
2.a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues.
3.a tramp or vagabond.
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)
7.to cheat.
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.
–adjective
10.(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


1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack. See knave.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
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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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