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Rakehelly

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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rakehelly

a. (tcx obsolete English) (synonym of rakehell English)

Usage examples of "rakehelly".

Being detained bodily and pressed for explanation, he desperately said that he had to go home to tease the cook--which had the rakehelly air he thought would insure his release, but was not considered plausible.

He met her rakehelly brother, Lord Alec Knight, who was of an age with him, and liked the man at once.

On the other hand, let no young, unmarried, rakehelly dog among you, make a song of his pretended liberty and freedom from care.

He was once a coarsely handsome fellow, was Ben, with a bold rakehelly air.

The two moved to the side of the road, and the riders passed by: three rakehelly young noblemen, with three equerries riding at their backs.