English

Alternative forms

• rake-****

Adjective

rakehell ‎(comparative more rakehell, superlative most rakehell)

1. (archaic) Immoral; dissolute. [from 16th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     And farre away, amid their rakehell bands, / They spide a Lady left all succourlesse […].

Synonyms

• rakehelly

Noun

rakehell ‎(plural rakehells)

1. (archaic) A lewd or wanton person; a debauchee; a rake. [from 16th c.]
   • Barrow

     It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together.