Roget

English

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Roget

1. A surname.

Etymology 2

Eponymous, from Peter Mark Roget (1779–1869).

Verb

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

1. (nonstandard) 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. (nonstandard) To use or to mention synonyms; (often) to replace words in a text with synonyms in order to disguise plagiarism.
   • 2014 August 7, Jack Grove, “Sinister buttocks? Roget would blush at the crafty cheek”, in Times Higher Education‎^[2]:

     Mr Sadler added that he had “seen quite a bit” of “Roget-ing”, which he described as “disguising plagiarism by substituting synonyms, one word at a time with no attempt to understand either the source or target text”.

   • 2015 February 7, Dr Pete Etchells, “Plagiarism: Copy, Paste, Thesaurus? [comment]”, in Discover Magazine: Neuroskeptic blog‎^[3], archived from the original on 21 February 2017:

     Usually it's not, as it's only key words that are Rogeted, so the rest of the sentence gets flagged.

   • 2021, Azimeh Takrimi, Sarah Elaine Eaton, “Exploring Rogeting: Implications for academic integrity”, in Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, volume 4, →DOI, page 110:

     We discuss methods of identifying Rogeted text, concluding with practical recommendations for educators about how to better support student writers so they can avoid Rogeting in favour of developing their writing skills.

Related terms

• Rogetian
• Roget's

Anagrams

• Grote, Trego, ergot, etrog, grote, regot