Roger

A male given name from the Germanic languages.

Proper noun

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
    • By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir / To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son / Of Edmund Mortimer. - 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
    • Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - -...
    • Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes. - 2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta...
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. The Devil; Satan.
  4. Jolly Roger (pirate flag)
    • The escaped convicts who had captured the Arrow even ran up the “Roger,” the black flag with the white skull […] - 1906, Bret Harte, Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine, page 410:

Origin

From Old French Rogier, from the Frankish equivalent of Old English Hrōþgār (see Hroðgar), from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþigaizaz (“fame-spear”). Compare also Rutger.

Forms

Rogers

Related

Hodge Rodger Rog Dodge Dodgeon Dodgin Dodgshon Dodgson Dodson Doidge Hadgkiss Hodgen Hodgeon Hodges Hodgett Hodgetts Hodgin Hodgins Hodgkin Hodgkins Hodgkinson Hodgkison Hodgkiss Hodgkisson

Derived

Jolly Roger Rogergnome Rogerian Roger Mills County Rogernomics Roger River Rogers Dry Lake Strickland Roger

Noun

  1. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter R.

    Synonyms: Romeo