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roguery

noun

Etymology

From rogue + -ery.

  1. derived from hrokr — “excess, exuberance”
  2. derived from rogre — “aggressive”
  3. derived from rogue — “arrogant, haughty”
  4. derived from rogō — “to ask”
  5. suffixed as roguery — “rogue + ery”

Definitions

  1. malicious or reckless behaviour

    • Sincerely I begin to wish I had never made such a Point of gaining so very good a character, for it has led me into so many curst Rogueries that I doubt I shall be exposed at last.

  2. mischievous behaviour

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for roguery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA