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rake-helly

rake-helly is the alternative form of rakehelly.

Meaning of rakehelly

Adjective

rakehelly (comparative more rakehelly, superlative most rakehelly)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of rakehell.
    • “I still have an objection,” said Albert, “to yonder impudent rakehelly fellow, styling himself a cavalier, who rushed himself on our company last night, and gained my father’s heart by a story of the storm of Brentford, which I dare say the rogue never saw.”1826, [Walter Scott], chapter XXII, in Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London...
    Synonyms:
    rakehell

Forms of rake-helly

comparativemore rake-helly
superlativemost rake-helly

Questions about rake-helly

What is rake-helly the alternative form of?
Rake-helly is the alternative form of rakehelly.

Words near rake-helly in the dictionary

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

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