rakehell
adj/ˈɹeɪkhɛl/UK
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.
Definitions
Immoral
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.
A lewd or wanton person
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rakehell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA