单词 | rakell |
释义 | rakelln. In later use English regional (north midlands and northern). Now rare. = rakehell n. 2. ΘΚΠ 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 1622 [see rakell-like adj. at Derivatives]. 1649 J. Howell Trance 8 We made the riff-raff of that City, as V. with his Myrmydons, and B. with his bandogs (for so they called the rakells they had raised) to rabble the King out of Town. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 81 In Cambridge, where (when a youth) he was a Rakel in grain. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. xi. 545 A Cooper that had put himself in the head of a crew of Rakels of his own profession. a1718 T. Parnell 3 Satyr Virtue in Coll. Poems (1989) 358 Damon the hottest rakell of the town has his cast misses on the common thrown. 1814 Archaeologia 17 155 Rakel, a spendthrift. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Rakell, a thoroughly bad man. DerivativesΚΠ 1622 J. Boys Wks. 413 This rakel-like behauiour is not in imperfect words only, but in scornful gestures of contempt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1622 |
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