Rogue vs. Rouge

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  • Rogue (noun)

    A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

  • Rogue (noun)

    A mischievous scamp.

  • Rogue (noun)

    A vagrant.

  • Rogue (noun)

    Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.

  • Rogue (noun)

    An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.

  • Rogue (noun)

    A plant that shows some undesirable variation.

  • Rogue (noun)

    A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.

  • Rogue (adjective)

    Vicious and solitary.

  • Rogue (adjective)

    Large, destructive and unpredictable.

  • Rogue (adjective)

    Deceitful, unprincipled.

  • Rogue (adjective)

    Mischievous, unpredictable.

  • Rogue (verb)

    To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.

  • Rogue (verb)

    To cheat.

  • Rogue (verb)

    To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

  • Rogue (verb)

    To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

  • Rouge (adjective)

    Of a reddish pink colour.

  • Rouge (noun)

    Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.

  • Rouge (noun)

    Any reddish pink colour.

  • Rouge (noun)

    A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent’s end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team’s end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.)

  • Rouge (noun)

    In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.

  • Rouge (noun)

    In the Eton College field game a five-point score awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition’s end of the pitch, and then touching the ball. Also, from 1862 to 1868, a similar scoring move in Sheffield rules football.

  • Rouge (noun)

    A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller’s rouge.

  • Rouge (verb)

    To apply rouge (makeup).

    “She rouged her face before setting out for the party.”

Wiktionary
  • Rogue (noun)

    a dishonest or unprincipled man

    “you are a rogue and an embezzler”

  • Rogue (noun)

    a person whose behaviour one disapproves of but who is nonetheless likeable or attractive

    “Cenzo, you old rogue!”

  • Rogue (noun)

    an elephant or other large wild animal living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies

    “a rogue elephant”

  • Rogue (noun)

    a person or thing that behaves in an aberrant or unpredictable way, typically with damaging or dangerous effects

    “a rogue cop who took the law into his own hands”

    “he hacked into data and ran rogue programs”

  • Rogue (noun)

    a seedling or plant deviating from the standard variety.

  • Rogue (verb)

    remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop)

    “the sowing has to be rogued to remove aberrant seedlings”

  • Rouge (noun)

    a red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for colouring the cheeks or lips

    “she wore patches of rouge on her cheeks”

  • Rouge (noun)

    short for jeweller’s rouge

  • Rouge (noun)

    (in Canadian football) a single point awarded when the receiving team fails to run a kick out of its own end zone.

  • Rouge (verb)

    colour with rouge

    “her brightly rouged cheeks”

  • Rouge (verb)

    apply rouge to one’s cheeks

    “she rouged regularly now”

  • Rouge (adjective)

    (of wine) red.

Oxford Dictionary

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