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rake-hell

rake-hell is the alternative form of rakehell.

Meaning of rakehell

Adjective

rakehell (comparative more rakehell, superlative most rakehell)

  1. (archaic) Immoral; dissolute.
    • And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    rakehelly

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Forms of rake-hell

Adjective
comparativemore rake-hell
superlativemost rake-hell
Noun
pluralrake-hells

Questions about rake-hell

What is rake-hell the alternative form of?
Rake-hell is the alternative form of rakehell.

Words near rake-hell in the dictionary

  1. rake steppings
  2. rake together
  3. rake up
  4. rake-'n'-scrape
  5. rake-and-scrape
  6. rake-hell
  7. rake-hells
  8. rake-helly
  9. rake-n-scrape
  10. rake-off
  11. rake-offs

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