provincial vs rogue

provincial

noun
  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

  • A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. 

adj
  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

rogue

noun
  • A mischievous scamp. 

  • A vagrant. 

  • A plant that shows some undesirable variation. 

  • A character class focusing on stealthy conduct. 

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

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

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

adj
  • Mischievous, unpredictable. 

  • Large, destructive and unpredictable. 

  • Deceitful, unprincipled. 

  • Vicious and solitary. 

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

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