3. (venery).—The penis: see Prick. Hence as verb. = to copulate: see Ride. [Cf. Roger = ram, and 'Roger a name frequently given to a bull' (B. E., Grose).]
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. xi. Taking you know what between their fingers and dandling it. And some of the . . . women would give these names, my Roger . . . smell-smock . . . lusty live sausage.
1720. Durfey, Pills, &c., vi. 201. And may Prince G's Roger grow stiff again and stand.
1750. Robertson of Struan, Poems, 98. Dear sweet Mr. Wright . . . Go rodger to-night Your Wife, for ye want her.
1794. Burns, The Summer Morn. [Merry Muses (c. 1800), p. ]. To Roger Madam Thetis. Ibid. (b. 1796), 'We're a' gaun Southie, O.' Bonie lassie, braw lassie, 'Will ye hae a sodger?' Then she took up her duddie sark, An' he shot in his roger.
1885. Burton, Thousand Nights, iii. 304. I will not roger thee. Ibid. (1890), Priapeia, xii. Thou shalt be pedicate, (lad) thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered.
4. (nautical).—A pirate flag: also Jolly Roger.—Grose (1785).
5. (old).—A rogue (q.v.).
Rogerian, subs. (old).—A kind of
wig.
1599. Hall, Virgid, III. v. 16. The sportfull winde to mocke the headlesse man, Tosses apace his pitch'd rogerian.
Rogue (Roge or Roger), subs.
(Old Cant).—1. A professed
beggar; 'the fourth Order of
Canters' (Awdeley, Harman,
B. E., Grose). Whence (2)
wild rogue (see quot. 1567),
and (3, modern) = a knave or
rascal; a rogue in grain = 'a
great rogue, or a corn-chandler'
(Grose); a rogue in spirit =
'a distiller or brandy-merchant'
(Grose). As verb = to beg.
1531-47. Copland, Spyttel Hous [Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poet., iv. 44]. These Rogers that . . . foot and frydge.
1567. Awdeley, Warning, &c. . . . A wilde Roge is he that is borne a Roge: he is more subtil and more geuen by nature to all kinde of knauery than the other. I once rebuking a wyld roge because he went idelly about he shewed me that he was a begger by enheritance—his grandfather was a begger, his father was one, and he must nedes be one by good reason.
1605. Shakspeare, Lear, iv. 7, 39. To hovel thee with swine and rogues forlorn.
1611. Cotgrave, Dict., s.v. Divague. Raunging, roguing about.
1619. Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, ii. 3. Ros. 'Tis pity such a lusty fellow should wander up and down, and want employment. Bel. She takes me for a rogue.
[Passim in English literature to the present time.]
2. (colloquial).—Anything vicious; bastard; or unstandardized. Thus rogue-elephant = an evil-minded murderous male or female; rogue's-badge = blinkers for a vicious horse. [Cf. Rogue (christened Roger) Riderhood, Dickens, Mutual Friend.]
1859. Darwin, Origin of Species, 42 and 43. When a race of plants is . . . established the seed-raisers do not pick out the best plants, but . . . pull up the rogues, as they call the plants that deviate from the proper standard. . . . The destruction of horses under a certain size . . . may be compared to the roguing of plants.
1888. Referee, 11 Dec. Admiral Benbow is a rogue, but he was tried exceedingly well in the summer time.
1891. Lic. Vict. Gaz. He wore the rogue's badge, but is built on racing lines.
3. (colloquial).—An endearment. Whence roguish = playfully mischievous. Also = a wag.
