Rogue vs. Rouge — What's the Difference?

A dishonest or unprincipled person.

A red powder or cream for coloring the cheeks or lips.

Someone or something that behaves unexpectedly.

A moderate to strong red color.

A person or thing that deviates from the norm.

Any of various red cosmetics.

A playfully mischievous person.

A polishing compound used to give a smooth, shiny surface.

A dishonest or unprincipled man

A red powder or cream used as a cosmetic for colouring the cheeks or lips

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

Short for jeweller's rouge

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

(in Canadian football) a single point awarded when the receiving team fails to run a kick out of its own end zone.

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

Colour with rouge

One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.

(of wine) red.

A wandering beggar; a vagrant.

A red or pink cosmetic for coloring the cheeks or lips.

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

A reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used to polish metals or glass.

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

To put rouge onto

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

To color or prettify as if with a facial cosmetic

Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable

To use rouge.

Operating outside normal or desirable controls

Of a reddish pink colour.

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

Red or pink makeup to add colour to the cheeks; blusher.

To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

Any reddish pink colour.

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

(Canadian football) A single point awarded when a team kicks the ball out of its opponent's end zone, or when a kicked ball becomes dead within the non-kicking team's end zone. Etymology uncertain; it is thought that in the early years of the sport, a red flag indicated that a single had been scored. (This scoring term is not often used in Canada, with the term single being more commonly used.)

A mischievous scamp.

(obsolete) In the Eton wall game, a scrummage, melée.

A vagrant.

In the Eton College field game, a scoring move accomplished by touching the ball down behind the opponents' goal-line (somewhat similar to the try in rugby). Originally, the player who scored the rouge had a chance to kick a goal, and the rouge was used as a tie-breaker if an equal number of goals was scored by each side. In the contemporary Eton College field game, a five-point score is awarded for kicking the ball so that it deflects off one of the opposing players and goes beyond the opposition's end of the pitch, and then touching the ball.

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

(obsolete) From 1862 to 1868, a similar scoring move in Sheffield rules football. From 1862 to 1867, accomplished by touching the ball down after it had been kicked between two "rouge flags" either side of the goal. From 1867-1868, awarded for kicking the ball between the rouge flags and under the crossbar.

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

A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide, used in polishing and as a cosmetic; crocus; jeweller's rouge.

A plant that shows some undesirable variation.

(ambitransitive) To apply rouge (makeup).

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

Red.

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

A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc.

(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.

A cosmetic used for giving a red color to the cheeks or lips. The best is prepared from the dried flowers of the safflower, but it is often made from carmine.

(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.

To paint the face or cheeks with rouge.

Mischievous, unpredictable.

To tint with rouge; as, to rouge the face or the cheeks.

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

Makeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks

To cheat.

Redden by applying rouge to;

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

To redden by applying cosmetics.

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

A computer program that performs malicious actions.

Yes, as in "She rouged her cheeks".

No, you might be thinking of a "Rouge application".

Traditionally, no. Rouge primarily refers to red cosmetics.

As a cosmetic, it's generally safe unless someone has allergies. Always check ingredients.

A country that doesn't comply with international norms or expectations.

Yes, it can also refer to a polishing compound.

No, "Rogue" is pronounced like 'rog' with a hard 'g', and "Rouge" sounds like 'roozh'.

Mostly, but it can also refer playfully to someone mischievous.

No, that's a person acting unpredictably or without authorization.

No, it refers to an unexpected, large wave in the ocean.

Not traditionally. If you mean to insult, you probably mean "Rogue".

No, but it's adopted in computer jargon to describe malicious software or actions.

They're similar. Rouge is traditionally red, while blush can be various shades.

Absolutely! Makeup has no gender.

Yes, a "rogues gallery" is a collection of pictures of criminals or suspects.