rake-hell

A form of rakehell — Immoral; dissolute.

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Meanings

adjectiverake-hell (comparative more rake-hell, superlative most rake-hell)

comparative more rake-hell · superlative most rake-hell

  1. alternativeAlternative form of rakehell.
nounrake-hell (plural rake-hells)

plural rake-hells

  1. alternativeAlternative form of rakehell.

    The King when he heard of Perkin's siege of Exeter, made sport with it, and said to them that were about him, that the King of rake-hells was landed in the west...

    1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 165
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APA

rake-hell. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rake-hell

MLA

“rake-hell.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rake-hell. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rake-hell,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rake-hell.

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