Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vile, dissolute wretch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A vile, dissolute wretch.
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- noun obsolete A
vile ,dissolute wretch .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Today's word, in association with the illuminating Oxford English Dictionary, is rakeshame n.
NYT > Home Page By BEN SCHOTT 2011
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Cowley: "A young rakeshame! your not liking him proves you have your father's penetration."
NYT > Home Page By BEN SCHOTT 2011
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(these three last in Gabriel Harvey), ‘rakeshame’ (Milton, prose), with others which it will be convenient to omit.
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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"There's not a more drunken, swearing rakeshame in town than Tom
Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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"There's not a more drunken, swearing rakeshame in town than Tom
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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"There's not a more drunken, swearing rakeshame in town than Tom
My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
hernesheir commented on the word rakeshame
This word might win a name-calling contest, if not take second to oleaginous makeweight or gapeseed.
December 18, 2010