Archrogue
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Archrogue is a noun meaning An infamous or particularly egregious rogue.
Meaning
An infamous or particularly egregious rogue.
More Meanings
- The chief of a band of thieves or gypsies.
Example Sentences
That Menaboju, he certainly is the greatest archrogue in the whole wide world.
Odysseus was wily, cunning, and adaptable, a grandson of the archrogue Autolycus and favored by Athena for his intelligence.
In addition to his business enterprises I have already mentioned, he is also in the business of being a physician and, so I am told, the business of being an archrogue.
During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries master thieves entrusted with the education of novices were well known in England, France, and Italy, and were archrogues in the various associations of beggars and vagabonds.
Word Forms
- archrogues
- arch-rogue
- arch rogue
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include arch-rogue, rogue, comrogue, rogueling, renegade, picaroon.
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