单词 | rakehelly |
释义 | rakehellyadj.n. Now archaic. A. adj. 1. Of a person: having the character, appearance, or manner of a rakehell. 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 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. The rakehellye route of our ragged rymers. 1596 E. Spenser View State Ireland ii These rakehelly horseboyes, growinge up in knavery and villainy. 1699 G. Farquhar Love & Bottle ii. i. 27 I am a Rakehelly Rascal not worth a Groat. a1766 F. Sheridan Concl. Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph (1770) IV. 103 Her ladyship has the misfortune of having a rakehelly young fellow to her son. 1789 R. Burns Let. 2 Apr. (1985) I. 390 Like the doting mother of a parcel of rakehelly Prodigals. 1841 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 439 They were..repulsive in appearance—rakehelly, slovenly in dress. 1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? ii. ii He..looked altogether as devil-me-care, rakehelly, handsome, good-for-nought as ever swore at a drawer. 1952 P. Larkin Let. 27 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 179 I don't believe that such a rakehelly character would get into such a detailed sweat about one or two girls. 1986 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 17 Aug. 20 The other fine performance is from Kevin Spacey as the wastrel, rakehelly elder son. 2. Of a thing: of, relating to, or characteristic of a rakehell. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [adjective] > specifically of conduct, life, etc. riotous1389 rakehella1547 rakehelly1594 wild oat1676 orgiastic1698 rakish1704 rakehellish1764 rackety1787 fast-going1856 orgiasticala1871 1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 13 Reuiling..his mother and me with such rakehelly words & hellish oathes. 1692 tr. B. Jonson Leges Convivales in Wks. sig. Bbbbb6v Breaking of windows,..And spoiling the goods for a rakehelly prank. 1825 J. F. Cooper Lionel Lincoln II. iv. 89 They needn't think to frighten the people with their rake-helly noises. 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge vii Those dissipated, not to say rakehelly countenances. 1939 Rev. Eng. Stud. 15 429 Dozens of satires were launched yearly at Byron by contemporaries envious of his literary success or morally shocked by his rakehelly adventures. 1998 C. Jungnickel & R. MacCormmach Cavendish (rev. ed.) i. ii. 48 Known for his rakehelly living, the prince would have had little in common temperamentally with his studious gentleman of the bedchamber. B. n. A dissolute or immoral person; = rakehell n. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > dissolute person > [noun] unthriftc1330 castaway1526 degenerate1555 rakehellc1560 ruffian1560 reprobate1592 rakeshame1598 wag-wanton1601 pavement-beater1611 perdu1611 wantoner1665 profligate1679 rantipole1699 rakehellyc1768 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person unthriftc1330 riotor1389 rioterc1440 palliard1484 skyrgalliarda1529 rakehellc1560 ranger1560 rakeshame1598 dissolute1608 pavement-beater1611 rakell1622 ranter1652 huzza1660 whorehopper1664 profligate1679 rakehellonian1692 rake1693 buck1725 blood1749 gay blade1750 have-at-alla1761 rakehellyc1768 hell-rake?1774 randan1779 rip1781 roué1781 hell-raker1816 tiger1827 raver1960 dog1994 c1768 Lady M. W. Montagu Poet. Wks. 235 No pedant, yet learned; no rake-helly gay. 1825 J. F. Cooper Lionel Lincoln I. xvi. 253 Let the rake-hellies go up to Breed's; the people will teach 'em the law! 1857 C. E. Stewart Oliver Cromwell I. x. 130 Gideon, though he had been..somewhat of a rake-helly..had not therefore become a sour fanatic. 1940 K. Roberts Oliver Wiswell xv. 147 Go call the patrol! I'll keep these petty rakehellies here till they come. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1579 |
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