Vagabond vs. Rogue — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Vagabond and Rogue
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Vagabond
A person who moves from place to place without a permanent home and often without a regular means of support.
Rogue
A dishonest or unprincipled man
You are a rogue and an embezzler
Vagabond
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a vagabond.
Rogue
An elephant or other large wild animal living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies
A rogue elephant
Vagabond
To wander or travel about, especially as a vagabond.
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Rogue
Remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop)
The sowing has to be rogued to remove aberrant seedlings
Vagabond
A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
Rogue
An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
Vagabond
One who usually wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood.
Rogue
One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
Vagabond
To roam, as a vagabond
Rogue
A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
Vagabond
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Rogue
A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
Vagabond
Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
Rogue
An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
Vagabond
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
To heaven their prayersFlew up, nor missed the way, by envious windsBlown vagabond or frustrate.
Rogue
Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
Vagabond
Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
Rogue
Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable
Rogue tornado.
Vagabond
One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.
Rogue
Operating outside normal or desirable controls
"How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).
Vagabond
To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
On every part my vagabonding sightDid cast, and drown mine eyes in sweet delight.
Rogue
To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
Vagabond
Anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place;
Pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea
Rogue
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.
Vagabond
A wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
Rogue
A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
Vagabond
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;
The gypsies roamed the woods
Roving vagabonds
The wandering Jew
The cattle roam across the prairie
The laborers drift from one town to the next
They rolled from town to town
Rogue
A mischievous scamp.
Vagabond
Wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community;
Led a vagabond life
A rootless wanderer
Rogue
A vagrant.
Vagabond
Continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another;
A drifting double-dealer
The floating population
Vagrant hippies of the sixties
Rogue
(computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.
Rogue
An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.
Rogue
A plant that shows some undesirable variation.
Rogue
(role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.
Rogue
(of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.
Rogue
(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.
Rogue
(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.
Rogue
Mischievous, unpredictable.
Rogue
(horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
Rogue
To cheat.
Rogue
(obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
Rogue
To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
Rogue
A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
Rogue
A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.
The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise.
Rogue
One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.
Ah, you sweet little rogue, you!
Rogue
An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.
Rogue
A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.
Rogue
To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.
Rogue
To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.
Rogue
To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).
Rogue
A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
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