Rogue vs. Vagrant — What's the Difference?

A dishonest or unprincipled man

A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

An elephant or other large wild animal living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies

Relating to or living the life of a vagrant

Remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop)

One who wanders from place to place without a permanent home or a means of livelihood.

An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.

(Archaic) A wanderer; a rover.

One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.

One who lives on the streets or constitutes a public nuisance.

A wandering beggar; a vagrant.

An animal occurring beyond its normal range; an accidental.

A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.

Wandering from place to place and lacking any means of support.

An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

Living on the streets or constituting a public nuisance.

Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.

Inconstant or capricious; wayward

Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable

Moving in a random fashion; having no fixed direction or pattern

Operating outside normal or desirable controls

Being beyond its normal range; accidental. Used of animals.

To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

(dated) A person who wanders from place to place; a nomad, a wanderer.

To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

(specifically) A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond.

A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae.

A mischievous scamp.

An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range.

A vagrant.

Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation.

(computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.

Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering.

An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.

(figurative) Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled.

A plant that shows some undesirable variation.

Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.

(role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.

Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.

(of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.

One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.

(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.

A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.

Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;

Mischievous, unpredictable.

(horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.

To cheat.

(obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.

One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.

An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.

A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.

To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).

A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel