1.
[syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rakehell \Rake"hell`\, Rakehelly \Rake"hell`y\
(r[=a]k"h[e^]l`[y^]), a.
Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] --Spenser. B. Jonson.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Rakehell \Rake"hell`\ (r[=a]k"h[e^]l`), n. [See Rakel.]
A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.
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It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a
sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. --Barrow.
[1913 Webster] Rakehell
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rakehell
n 1: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake,
rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]