All 9 Uses of
rogue
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Buss her, wap in rogues' rum lingo, for, O, my dimber wapping dell!†
Chpt 3
- He crossed under Tommy Moore's roguish finger.†
Chpt 8roguish = having the characteristics of a "rogue" (not behaving like others; often dangerous)
- he asked roguishly.†
Chpt 10roguishly = in a manner like a "rogue" (someone who doesn't behave like others; often dangerous or immoral)
- He was bloody safe he wasn't run in himself under the act that time as a rogue and vagabond only he had a friend in court.†
Chpt 12 *
- You're a rogue and I'm another.†
Chpt 12
- 'Tis a merry rogue.†
Chpt 12
- To tell the truth he was mean in fortunes and for the most part hankered about the coffeehouses and low taverns with crimps, ostlers, bookies, Paul's men, runners, flatcaps, waistcoateers, ladies of the bagnio and other rogues of the game or with a chanceable catchpole or a tipstaff often at nights till broad day of whom he picked up between his sackpossets much loose gossip.†
Chpt 14
- Mrs Breen in man's frieze overcoat with loose bellows pockets, stands in the causeway, her roguish eyes wideopen, smiling in all her herbivorous buckteeth.†
Chpt 15roguish = having the characteristics of a "rogue" (not behaving like others; often dangerous)
- that a bit on my side piano quietly sweeeee theres that train far away pianissimo eeeee one more song that was a relief wherever you be let your wind go free who knows if that pork chop I took with my cup of tea after was quite good with the heat I couldnt smell anything off it Im sure that queerlooking man in the porkbutchers is a great rogue I hope that lamp is not smoking fill my nose up with smuts better than having him leaving the gas on all night I couldnt rest easy in my bed in Gibraltar even getting up to see why am I so damned nervous about that though I like it in the winter its more company O Lord it was rotten cold too that winter when I was only about ten was I yes I ha†
Chpt 18
Definition:
not normal and possibly dangerous -- possibly alone
The exact meaning of rogue can depend upon its context. For example:
- "a rogue state" -- (politics) a dangerous country that ignores international conventions
- "a rogue animal" -- (especially of an elephant) dangerous and not living with or like its kind
- "a rogue trader" -- (finance) an employee who makes unauthorized and improper securities trades
- "a rogue wave" -- (oceanography) a dangerous wave that is much larger than others around it
- "rogue cells" -- (biology) tumor cells
- "He is a rouge." -- someone who is deceitful and unprincipled (though possibly liked despite that)
- "a roguish grin" -- mischievous (causing minor trouble in a playful, harmless way)