DCHP-2

rouge ((v.)) DCHP-2 (November 2016)

• 1 v. — Canadian Football, dated, rare today

  to concede a rouge.

  Type: 1. Origin — The meaning, mostly in the collocation to be forced to rouge, had considerable currency until the first quarter of the 20th century, but has lost ground to the nominal form, see rouge ((n.)). Note that the 2001 quotation is the only use in Canadian Newsstream we were able to find in text from more than 300 Canadian newspapers from 1977 to July 2016. Chart 1 shows that the phrase was rouged is still most common in Canada.
  The term is Canadian for its meaning of "conceding a rouge".

  See also: Canadian football  rouge ((n.))  

• 2 v. — Canadian Football, dated, rare today

  to force the opposing team to concede a rouge.

  Type: 3. Semantic Change — Like meaning 1, which is losing points by being rouged, this meaning, which is to gain points via forcing a rouge ((n.)) is today dated and increasingly rare. Canadian Newsstream includes no single token for was rouged in this meaning. The verbal form, instead, has specialized since the early 20th century to the meaning 'to apply rouge makeup to one's face'.

  See also: rouge ((n.))