单词 | hell-raking |
释义 | hell-rakingadj. Wild, dissolute; rakehelly, hell-raising. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective] wild13.. desolatec1386 unthrifty1388 riotousc1405 resolute?a1475 palliard1484 dissolutea1513 royetous1526 sluttishc1555 rakehell1556 dissolutious1560 rakehelly1579 hell-raking1593 sportive1597 low1599 lavish1600 rakellyc1600 profligate1627 profligated1652 rantipole1660 abandoned1690 raking1696 rakish1696 dissipated1744 dissipating1818 outward1875 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 77 No Smithfield ruffianly Swashbuckler, will come of with such harshe hell-raking othes as they. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 20 Whose Hell-raking, Nature-shaking Spell. 1828 W. Scott Chron. Canongate 2nd ser. I. v. 118 I am not to have the risk of my booth being broken, and my house plundered, by the hell-raking followers of the nobles. 1960 Spectator 17 June 870 Chatter nostalgically but amusingly about the hellraking times at Balliol. 2004 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 19 Captain Robert Berie, one of Tarleton's hell-raking pals in youth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1593 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。