Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to have sexual intercourse, to seduce; thus rogering, rogerable adj.

1710		Byrd of Virginia Diary 16 Dec. (1941) 272: I rose at eight o’clock, having first rogered my wife.
1719		Byrd of Virginia Diary 17 Feb. (1958) 232: To the bagnio where we lay all night and I rogered twice.
1723		Rape of the Bride 9: The Theme, my Muse, pursue, relate / Rogeria’s Ravishment, and Fate.
a.1749		Robertson of Struan ‘To Mr. Wright’ in Poems (1752) 98: Dear sweet Mr. Wright / Give over your banter, / Go rodger to-night / Your Wife, for ye want her.
1763		Boswell London Journal (1950) 4 June 273: Brother soldiers, said I, Should not a half-pay officer r-g-r for sixpence?
1785		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: [...] to roger, to bull, or lie with a woman, from the name of Roger, frequently given to a bull.
1794		‘The Summer Morn’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) IV 266: Latona’s son, looks liquorish on / Dame Nature’s grand impetus, / Till his pegs rise, then westward flies / To roger Madam Thetis.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1826		J. Winston Drury Lane Jrnl (1974) 7 Oct. 135: He went [...] into Hyde Park with a ‘woman’ whom he gave one shilling and while in the very act of ‘rogering’ her, died.
1836		‘The Blowen’s Man’ in Frisky Vocalist 21: They call me rogering Bill.
1841		‘Joe Buggins’ in Gentleman’s Spicey Songster 37: Down the stairs Joe he did hide, / Caught that Willain Hookham, in the privy, a rogering his dear bride.
1843		Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 11 Feb. 3/3: Strange rumours [...] relative to a party in high office being Miss-ing from his bed some short time ago. ‘Roger!’ says his better half, ‘Roger, where are you?’ [...] It is hardly necessary to say that the honourable — General was adding ing to his name with the Maid?
1850		in N.E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 186: That Albert Pearson, for the Dollars, / Would often Roger Fanny Rogers.
c.1850		Peeping Tom (London) 7 26/2: A country girl who had a sweetheart by the name of Roger was asking him [...] to do something for her. Come, will you Roger? The arch rogue immediately inverts her meaning by saying, If you will lie down, I will roger.
1870		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 195: There was a young man of Penzance / Who rogered his three maiden aunts.
1884		‘Experiences of a Cunt Philosopher’ in Randiana 120: I found that it was my own sister I was rogering. I had, unluckily, got to that point where no man or woman could cease firing.
1889		Dead Bird (Sydney) 14 Dec. 1/2: In the counting- house of the London firm of Brodziaek and Rodgers appears the following notice [...] ‘J. Brodziack pays the male employes and Rodgers the female’.
1890		‘Neaniskos’ Priapeia Ep. xii 14: Thou shalt be pedicate, (lad!) thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered.
1908		G.R. Bacchus Pleasure Bound ‘Afloat’ (1969) 208: ‘A dam sight too much jolly rogering for other people’.
1909		Joyce letter 9 Dec. to Nora Barnacle in Ellman Sel. Letters (1975) 186: My little whore tells me she wants me to roger her arseways.
1919		E. Pound letter Apr. in Paige (1971) 150: If I were, however, a professor of Latin in Chicago, I should probably have to resign on divulging the fact that Propertius occasionally copulavit, i.e. rogered the lady to whom he was not legally wedded.
1925		E. Field ‘A French Crisis’ in Facetiae Americana 17: Of certain cross-grained margots whom he’d rogered in the street.
1941		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 66: She was rogered by scores / Who’d been turned down by whores.
1950		in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) I 77: He’ll roger you an’ fuck you an’ talk mighty sweet.
1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 25: Ben and this Simon attempting to roger each other over the magazines on the floor.
1973		(con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Good Ship Venus’ in Snatches and Lays 87: On the trip to Buenos Aires, we rogered all the fairies.
1988		A. Hollinghurst Swimming-Pool Library (1998) 178: I mean, you could hardly have the District Commissioner riding round on his camel rogering the subject people.
1999		Indep. on Sun. Culture 1 Aug. 3: Hurley with her phosphorescent lip-liner and cut-glass accent being rogered by a goon.
2004		J. McCourt ‘Vilja de Tanquay Exults’ in Queer Street 298: Yes, me, illegitimate – out of some yank’s / Shaggin’ bollocks what rogered me wayward mum.
2004		I. Rankin Fleshmarket Close (2005) 194: PR means Patently Rogerable.
2007		L. Redhead Cherry Pie [ebook] You’d never guess she’d just been rogered.
2011		Sun. World (SA) 4 Dec. 🌐 Hlongwane [...] was alledgedly rogering his wife behind his back.
2018		G. Gilmore Class Act [ebook] Harte was the last one what saw Charlie Holland alive, having just rogered her.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers 50: I rogered her last Christmas.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 111: ‘I’m, fully capable of giving you a bona jolly rogering’.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 118: Roger Dean [...] got a new husband / wife off Leather Jocker. He’s also called Roger. So Roger rogers Roger. RrR.

2. (Aus.) us fig, synon with fuck v. (2a)

1843

Satirist & Sporting Chron. (Sydney) 25 Feb. 2/1: If therry wanted to Roger us nobly, why not [...] bring us into Court where we could have the benefit of Law [...] but no, he sends his tool to the lower court, where it is handled with much dexterity.