rakehell
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Definition of rakehell
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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(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
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(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
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(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—[…]”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
Words you can make from rakehell
76 playable · top: HAKE (11 pts)
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32 words- HARK 11 pts
- LAKH 11 pts
- AKEE 8 pts
- KALE 8 pts
- KEEL 8 pts
- LAKE 8 pts
- LARK 8 pts
- LEAK 8 pts
- LEEK 8 pts
- LEKE 8 pts
- RAKE 8 pts
- REEK 8 pts
- HALE 7 pts
- HALL 7 pts
- HARE 7 pts
- HARL 7 pts
- HEAL 7 pts
- HEAR 7 pts
- HEEL 7 pts
- HELL 7 pts
- HERE 7 pts
- HERL 7 pts
- LEHR 7 pts
- RHEA 7 pts
- ALEE 4 pts
- EARL 4 pts
- LEAL 4 pts
- LEAR 4 pts
- LEER 4 pts
- RALE 4 pts
- REAL 4 pts
- REEL 4 pts
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