I wasn’t quite sure what the title of Sarah Palin’s new book meant, so I looked it up in the American Heritage Dictionary (via Dictionary.com):
rogue
n.
- An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
- One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
- A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
- A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
- An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.
adj.
- Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
- Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
- Operating outside normal or desirable controls: “How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?” (Saul Hansell).
v. rogued, rogu·ing, rogues
v. tr.
- To defraud.
- To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.
v. intr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Hmmm…. None of these definitions sound very flattering, do they? I wonder if she came up with that title herself, or if someone else suggested it just to be funny. Just for fun, I checked the thesaurus to see if it was a synonym for “maverick.” Nope.
The Urban Dictionary definition for “going rogue”:
The feminine version of “going commando”, i.e. wearing no underpants. Adapted from the title of Sarah Palin’s memoir “Going Rogue: An American Life”;
A euphemism for unprotected anal sex;
Refusing to use toilet paper;
… and some other stuff, I probably shouldn’t post here, but check for yourself:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=going+rogue
you either like her or you don’t.
To bash her with only what has been put forth by so called “reporters'” shows a low mentality.
Quote from : CNN points out the that book’s title refers to the criticism lodged by aides to her running mate Sen. John McCain as the 2008 campaign drew to a close.
After Palin strayed from the campaign playbook several times in October 2008, one McCain adviser griped to CNN that the vice presidential nominee was “going rogue.” Another called her a “diva.” unquote . This was after they decided to pull out of Michigan.
I would say ” she did not agree to the plan and went her own way and let those farther down on pecking list, suck eggs”
Thanks, Popijw. I really thought she named her book that as a way of trying to say “I’m a maverick.” Your (CNN’s) explanation makes a whole lot more sense.
Sounds as though the Urban Dictionary is distorting the English language–as if it isn’t distorted enough already. 🙂 I doubt that Sarah even knows about the Urban Dictionary. I never read celebrity books–so I doubt that I’ll start with this one.
Obviously it doesn’t mean being adverse to cheap publicity stunts. Can’t wait for that Palin-Beck 2012 ticket. Then she can learn what insignificant means.
From my (mostly bad) memories of detassling corn, I recall de-roguing, when a guy (or gal) would leap out of the basket and knock down the “rogue,” the corn stalk that was abnormally larger than others (I was surprised to see that on the above list. Cool).
As for SP, I’m still wrapping my head around the fact-checking of her book. That seems an obvious over-the-top maneuver by her opponents. Who happen to be members of the Associated Press? Wake me up when this is all over.
Diana
writes this is diana you all know me as level headed and full of sound judgement
how closing the northmore firedeparment bulidling and firing 10 or 12 firemen
As you know I always been for every big spending project that came down the pike and so I thinks only fair we tax the realestate brokers get tax more who make plenty of money really big pay checks
Peoria should only commit the reserves to go to jamica on a vacation, kinda of like discrete embezzling of funds, money never mind the 17 police who llost their jobs
Peoria should build their own empire state building