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rakehood

noun

Etymology

From rake + -hood.

  1. derived from *rakō✻
  2. derived from rák — “strip; stripe; furrow; small mountain ravine”
  3. derived from *h₃reǵ-✻ — “to straighten, right oneself”
  4. derived from *rakō✻ — “path, track; course, direction; an unfolding, unwinding; account, narrative; argument, reasoning”
  5. inherited from racu — “bed of a stream; path; account, narrative; explanation; argument, reasoning; reason”
  6. inherited from rake
  7. suffixed as rakehood — “rake + hood”

Definitions

  1. immoral behaviour

    • Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA