Definitions
Etymologies
- Compare rakehell, ragabash. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Today's word, in association with the illuminating Oxford English Dictionary, is rakeshame n.”
“Cowley: "A young rakeshame! your not liking him proves you have your father's penetration.”
“(these three last in Gabriel Harvey), ‘rakeshame’ (Milton, prose), with others which it will be convenient to omit.”
“There's not a more drunken, swearing rakeshame in town than Tom”
My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rakeshame’.
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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Rakes
rake, rakes, brakes, hale, as thin as a rake, rakehell, horserake, star-wheel rake, hand-rake, rake helly, A child sitting i..., sulky rake and 47 more...
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Rognons of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for terms and phrases that don't fit into any of my other lists.
priorship, exigeant, refectory, reestablish, capper, reesed, quar, reprune, orificial, reaming-iron, terminist, terminism and 3097 more...
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Vocalublary Awareness
Words I need to use more to increase my vocabulary.
incredulous, prolific, ubiquitous, egregious, aplomb, resilience, persevere, punctilious, perspicacious, inordinate, articulate, enunciate and 199 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Positively delightful
malarkey, rakeshame, aguish, larb, foist, discombobulate, bezaubernd, scuppernong, chantepleure, embrangle, wodge, deliquium and 2 more...
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You don't sound like what you mean
pulchritude, bucolic, behoove, bathos, honey-bread, rakeshame, aguish, pogrom, temerity, fungible, prepossessed, jejune and 1 more...
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hernesheir This word might win a name-calling contest, if not take second to oleaginous makeweight or gapeseed. Dec 17, 2010