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Let the factchecking begin with her book's title: Going Rogue. According to www.dictionary.com here are the definitions of "rogue" (and I would say YEP THAT FACT CHECKS OUT!):
Rogue –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
Synonyms: 1. villain, trickster, swindler, cheat, mountebank, quack. See knave. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009. Cite This Source |
v. tr.
1.
To defraud. 2.
To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
v. intr. To remove diseased or abnormal plants.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Cite This Source Word Origin & History
rogue 1561, "idle vagrant," perhaps a shortened form of roger (with a hard -g-), thieves' slang for a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge, perhaps from L. rogare "to ask." Another theory traces it to Celtic (cf. Bret. rog "haughty"); OED says, "There is no evidence of connexion with F. rogue 'arrogant.' " Rogue's gallery "police collection of mug shots" is attested from 1859. Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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