Roget

Roget

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

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, 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.
   • 2014 August 7, Jack Grove, “Sinister buttocks? Roget would blush at the crafty cheek”, in Times Higher Education‎:

     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:

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

• Grote, Trego, ergot, regot