Roget

English

Proper noun

Roget

1. A surname
2. Peter Mark Roget, a British physician and lexicographer known for publishing Roget's Thesaurus.

Verb

Roget (third-person singular simple present Rogets, present participle Rogeting, simple past and past participle Rogeted)

1. To use a thesaurus; to look for synonyms; to suggest synonyms.
   • 1931, Joseph Daly, Mencken and Einstein look at religion‎^[1], page 6:

     In fact many times we can hear the clatter of the thesaurus Rogeting to the rescue.

   • 1983, Henry Mayhew, ‎Tom Taylor, ‎& Mark Lemon, Punch - Volume 285, page 17:

     ... the deep waters of English, including 29 pages out-Rogeting Roget with synonyms for "drunk".

2. To use or to mention synonyms; (often) to replace words in a text with synonyms in order to disguise plagiarism.

Anagrams

• Grote, Trego, ergot, regot