rakehell

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɹeɪkhɛl/(UK)

Definition of rakehell

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic)Immoral; dissolute.
    “And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].”
    “I knew from the beginning that I would have to move fast to keep Minnie to myself. Kansas City was full of rakehell bachelors, all of whom I had to outcourt.”
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adj

  1. (archaic)Immoral; dissolute.
    “And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].”
    “I knew from the beginning that I would have to move fast to keep Minnie to myself. Kansas City was full of rakehell bachelors, all of whom I had to outcourt.”

noun

  1. (archaic)A lewd or wanton person; a debauchee; a rake.
    “It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.”
    “And indeed I believe the insolence of this creature will ruin her master at last, by driving away men of sobriety and business, and making the place a den of vagabonds and rakehells.”
    ““It is some freak of that drunken rakehell,” said Albert, in a low voice, to his sister, who had crept out after him on tiptoe.”
    “A fat little bookseller in the City, a rakehell wit of noble blood, and a rugged Scotch surgeon from the navy—[…]”

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Etymology

From to rake (out) hell (“to search through hell thoroughly”), in the sense of a person so evil or immoral that they cannot be found in hell even after an extensive search: see rake (“to search through (thoroughly)”). Compare rakeshame.

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