rakehell

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Fr. _Poste_ a rakehell, or Colledge-seruant, thats euer gadding or

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  1. noun A dissolute person; a rake.

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  • She never would have thought it of such a rakehell, but then you never knew. —  Johanna Lindsey - Tender Rebel
  • Bridgeton was a cold-hearted rakehell, about as caring as a coiled snake. —  THE SEDUCTION OF SARA
  • But once she discovers who he really is, it's too late-she's already betrothed to the wickedly sensual rakehell.
  • A fat little bookseller in the City, a rakehell wit of noble blood, and —  Through the Magic Door
  • Fr. _Poste_ a rakehell, or Colledge-seruant, thats euer gadding or —  Early English Meals and Manners
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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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