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English Dictionary: rakehell by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rakehell
n
  1. a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rakehell \Rake"hell`\, n. [See {Rakel}.]
      A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.
  
               It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a
               sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. --Barrow.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Rakehell \Rake"hell`\, Rakehelly \Rake"hell`y\, a.
      Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] --Spenser. B. Jonson.
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