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单词 rakery
释义

rakery

English

Etymology

rake + -ery

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪkəɹi/

Noun

rakery (countable and uncountable, plural rakeries)

  1. Debauchery; lewdness.
    • a. 1734, Roger North, The Life of the Right Honourable Francis North
      the rakery and intrigues of the lewd town
    • 1979, Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
      Already, you see, I had begun to acquire a taste for rakery and wenching among the London debutantes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rakery in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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