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rake-hell en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rakehell.
    alt of rakehell

Forms

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most rake-hell Degree=Sup lexicographic
more rake-hell Degree=Cmp lexicographic

rake-hell en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of rakehell.
    alt of rakehell
    • The King when he heard of Perkin's siege of Exeter, made sport with it, and said to them that were about him, that the King of rake-hells was landed in the west... 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 165:

Forms

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rake-hells Number=Plur lexicographic