rakehell Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a dissolute man in fashionable society
    rake; rip; blood; roue; profligate.

WordNet

Rake"hell` noun
Etymology
See Rakel.
Definitions
  1. A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.
    It seldom doth happen, in any way of life, that a sluggard and a rakehell do not go together. Barrow.
Rake"hell`, Rake"hell`y adjective (Also<
  • Rakehell
  • Rakehelly
)
Definitions
  1. Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. Obs. Spenser. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913