rakehell

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  1. noun A dissolute person; a rake.

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  • There are songs, such as ` Never Wed a Hendrake Lass. ' —  Prince of Chaos
  • Reverend Thrower had seen just such an informal pose taken by a dandy from Camelot, a rakehell who clearly despised everything that the Puritan churches of England and Scotland stood for. —  Seventh Son
  • The tune was one he and Rhellen had used as a signal when tavern-hopping back in his days as a colonial rakehell. —  Omnibus
  • You do not, then, entirely believe in my reputation as a rakehell? " —  The Outrageous Dowager
  • A more experienced rakehell than David. —  Captives Of The Night
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Possibly by folk etymology from obsolete rackle, headstrong, from Middle English rakel, perhaps from raken, to go.

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  1. A corruption of rakel, simulating rake, v., + obj. hell, as if one so bad as to be found only by raking hell, or one so reckless as to rake hell (in double allusion to the “harrowing of hell”: see harrow and harrow): see rakel, and cf. to rake hell, under rake, v.
 

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/ˈreɪkhɛl/
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