rakehell

Definitions


[ˈreɪkhɛl], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits
(e.g: her dissolute rakehell of a son, Sir Felix)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: from the old expression to rake hell, meaning ‘to search through hell’ (to find such a bad man)




definition by Oxford Dictionaries