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arch-rogue

arch-rogue is the alternative form of archrogue.

Meaning of archrogue

Noun

archrogue (plural archrogues)

  1. An infamous or particularly egregious rogue.
    • That Menaboju, he certainly is the greatest archrogue in the whole wide world.2008, Johann Georg Kohl, Kitchi-Gami: Life Among the Lake Superior Ojibway, →ISBN
  2. The chief of a band of thieves or gypsies.
    • The Whelp lighed on a pirate at Milford Haven, who had newly opened shop and seized upon a Plymouth bark in Youghal harbour. He was trading for powder and muskets with some knaves on shore; but his market was marred, and four of the principals delivered up to justice. The archrogue's name is Gosman.1863, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I.

Forms of arch-rogue

pluralarch-rogues

Questions about arch-rogue

What is arch-rogue the alternative form of?
Arch-rogue is the alternative form of archrogue.

Words near arch-rogue in the dictionary

  1. arch-practitioners
  2. arch-rival
  3. arch-rivalries
  4. arch-rivalry
  5. arch-rivals
  6. arch-rogue
  7. arch-rogues
  8. arch-sexist
  9. arch-sexists
  10. arch.
  11. archabbey

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