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单词 rakell
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rakelln.

Brit. /ˈreɪkɛl/, U.S. /ˈreɪˌkɛl/
Forms: 1600s 1800s rakel, 1600s– rakell.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: rakehell n.
Etymology: Variant of rakehell n. Compare earlier rakelly adj.Perhaps also influenced by rackle adj., some examples of which might alternatively be taken as showing an adjective parallel to this word.
In later use English regional (north midlands and northern). Now rare.
= rakehell n. 2.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > profligacy, dissoluteness, or debauchery > [noun] > person
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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.

Derivatives

rakell-like adj. Obsolete
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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).
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