Dictionary: RAJ – RAL

• RAJ
n. a villain, a trickster …1940s W. Indies sl.
 
• RAJAH
n. an erection …1940s NZ sl.
 
• RAJAMUFFIN
n. a member of a British Indian (Hindi) urban youth gang or subculture …2006 UK sl.
 
• RAJPUTANA
n. a banana ..1998 UK rhyming sl.
 
• RAK
n. 1. a lean, emaciated creature …1908 Sc.
n. 2. one who wanders or roams about idly …1908 Sc.
vb. to wander, to roam …1967 Sc.
 
• RAKE
n. 1. the throat, the jaws …c825 obs.
n. 2. a way, a path; a rough path over a hill; a narrow path up a cleft or raving …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 3. a run, rush; speed, a swift pace …c1460 Sc. & N. Eng. dial. rare
n. 4. a herd of colts …1486 obs. rare
n. 5. a very thin or lean person …1582
n. 6. a man of loose habits and immoral character; an idle dissipated man of  fashion; a dissolute man …1653
n. 7. a woman of loose habits and immoral character …1712
n. 8. a single journey or excursion in conveying anything from one place to another; hence, the amount so carried by a person, horse, or cart …1792 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 9. an accumulation, what has been gathered together; a hoard …1851 Sc.
n. 10. a comb …M19 sl.
n. 11. a commission, esp. on some form of illegal deal …L19 sl., orig. US
n. 12. a gossiping meeting …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 13. a large quantity or number …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 14. a name given to a sheepdog …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 15. great energy …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 16. one who wanders about in an aimless manner; a lounger, an idle person …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
n. 17. one who works with much fuss and effort but with little skill or care …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 18. a desultory reader …1920 Sc.
n. 19. a grasping person who is always trying to accumulate money …1920 Sc.
n. 20. any form of trickiness, such as a duplicitous answer that hides the true situation …1950s W. Indies sl.
n. 21. a hunch …1950s W. Indies sl.
n. 22. in pool: a device used to support the cue stick for a hard-to-reach shot …1990 US sl.
vb. 1. to go, to proceed, esp. with speed; to run; also, to go or wander about, to roam, to stray, to ramble; to stroll about idly; to gad about …a1023 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to scrape away …c1250 obs. rare
vb. 3. to make money, esp. in generous quantities or at an enviable speed …1583 UK
vb. 4. to make search or investigation; to poke into …1637
vb. 5. of a man: to have sexual intercourse …L17 sl.
vb. 6. to live a dissolute or dissipated life …1700
vb. 7. to rub the rheum from the eyes …1708 Sc. rare
vb. 8. to hurt, to upset, to cause discomfort to …1790 Sc.
vb. 9. to live in a rakish or dissolute manner …18C sl.
vb. 10. of food: to disagree with …1790 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 11. to occupy a height over, to overlook …1842
vb. 12. of the wind: to blow gently …1854 Sc.
vb. 13. to make a great deal of money …M19 sl.
vb. 14. to divide loot …M19 UK criminals’ sl.
vb. 15. to bank up a fire, to cover it with a small coal and cinders so that it will burn quietly all night …1887 Sc.
vb. 16. of the sea: to break on the shore with a long, grating sound …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 17. to repeat; to tell over again …Bk1905 Eng. dial. obs.
vb. 18. to scold severely, to attack verbally …1907 Amer. dial.
vb. 19. to comb …1910s Irish sl.
vb. 20. to drag, to trail …1914 Sc.
vb. 21. to search a person …1956 Sc.
vb. 22. to lower the front end of a car …1970 US sl.
 
• RAKE A GAME
vb. to charge card players for the privilege of playing …1977 US sl.
 
• RAKE AND SCRAPE
vb. to collect everything one can lay one’s hands on for one’s own advantage; to be over-grasping and avaricious …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RAKED
adj. 1. drunk …1980s US college sl.
adj. 2. emotionally or intellectually exhausted …1980s US college sl.
adj. 3. having lost in a competition …1980s US college sl.
adj. 4. having suffered an horrific experience …1980s US college sl.
adj. 5. humiliated …1980s US college sl.
 
• RAKE-DOWN
n. a scolding; a reprimand …1859 Amer. dial.
(verbs as ‘rake down’)
vb. 1. to win money at gambling, esp. cards …M19 sl., orig. US
vb. 2. to scold, to reprimand …1942 Amer. dial.
 
• RAKE-FIRE
n. one who comes to pay a visit and stays very late …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RAKE-HELL
adj. profligate, dissolute, debauched …1556
n. a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake …1554 now arch.
vb. (as ‘rake hell’) to search exhaustively …1542 obs.
 
• RAKEHELLISH
adj. profligate, dissolute, debauched …1824
 
• RAKEHELLONIAN
n. one of the ‘sect’ of rakehells; an utterly immoral or dissolute person …a1704
 
• RAKEHELLY
adj. profligate, dissolute, debauched …1579
n. a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake …a1762
 
• RAKE-ILL
n. a circulator of evil reports …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RAKE-IN
n. 1. a commission, esp. on some form of illegal deal …L19 sl., orig. US
n. 2. the financial results of an enterprise …1947 US sl.
vb. (as ‘rake in’) to make a profit …1583
 
• RAKE IN THE SHEKELS
vb. 1. to make a profit …1583
vb. 2. to make money rapidly …1883 sl.
 
• RAKE IN THE THROTTLE
vb. to stick in the throat …1725 cant
 
• RAKEISM
n. debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy …1775 rare
 
• RAKE IT IN
vb. to make a profit …1583
 
• RAKE JAKES
n. a villain …18C sl.
 
• RAKE-KENNEL
n. a scavenger; one who cleans streets, etc. …1716 obs. rare
 
• RAKEL
 n. a rake-hell; a thorough scoundrel or rascal; an utterly immoral or dissolute person; a vile debauchee or rake …1622 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
• RAKE-LEAN
adj. lean as a rake …1593 obs.
 
• RAKELY
adj. profligate, dissolute, debauched …1694 obs. rare
 
• RAKENTEIE
n. a chain …c950 obs.
 
• RAKE-OFF
n. 1. money obtained from a crime or as a bribe …1899 US sl.
n. 2. a commission, percentage, share, or rebate received by a party to a transaction, esp. an illegitimate or unethical transaction …20C Amer. sl.
n. 3. chips or money that a gambling house takes as its percentage from the money bet in a gambling game …20C Amer. sl.
n. 4. a profit …20C sl.
 
• RAKE ON
vb. to humiliate; to criticize …1980s US college sl.
 
• RAKE ONESELF TOGETHER
vb. to collect oneself …1886 Eng. dial.
 
• RAKE-OUT
n. a pipeful of tobacco …L19 sl.
vb. (as ‘rake out’) of a man: to have sexual intercourse …L19 sl.
 
• RAKE OVER
vb. to scold; to say uncomplimentary things about somebody …1965 Amer. dial.
 
• RAKE OVER THE COALS
vb. to reprimand …20C colloq.
 
• RAKER
n. 1. a scavenger; a street-cleaner …1362 now arch.
n. 2. a heavy bet, a ‘plunge’ …1869 sporting sl.
n. 3. an extremely fast pace …1895 colloq.
n. 4. a comb …M19 sl.
n. 5. a vagabond, a wanderer, a rover …1866 Sc.
n. 6. a professional jester …1889 Sc.
n. 7. a covetous person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 8. a superior person or thing; a hard worker …Bk1905 Sc.
n. 9. something excellent …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
 
• RAKERY
n. rakish conduct; debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy; social excitement …1728 rare
 
• RAKES
n. 1. a term of abuse for a person …1575 obs. rare
n. 2. line of white foam on lakes, often noticeable before a storm …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 3. the same as ‘rakes and roans’ …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RAKESHAME
n. 1598 – a man of loose character; a base, rascally fellow; a lewd, debauched fellow; a disreputable or dissolute person; a rogue; an uncouth and wicked boy
 
• RAKE-SHAMED
adj. 1635 – disreputable, disgraceful (obs.)
 
• RAKE-TEETH
n. Bk1905 – teeth wide apart (Eng. dial.)
 
• RAKE THE CAKES
vb. 1842 – to be awarded a prize, as in a contest; to be victorious (US sl.)
 
• RAKE THE LEAVES
vb. 1976 – to drive at the back of a group of trucks travelling on a motorway together, watching for police from the rear (US sl.)
 
• RAKE TOGETHER
vb. M19 – to make a great deal of money (sl.)
 
• RAKE-TOOTH’D
adj. Bk1905 – having large gaps between the teeth (Eng. dial.)
 
• RAKE-UP
n. 1940s – a hand-rolled cigarette (sl.)
vb. M19 – (as ‘rake up’) to make a great deal of money (sl.)
 
• RAKE UP THE PERSIMMONS
vb. M19 – to succeed, to win, to make a profit (sl.)
 
• RAKIN’
adj. Bk1905 – hungry, unsatisfied (Eng. dial.)
 
• RAKING
adj. 1. 1704 – profligate, dissolute, debauched, dissipated
adj. 2. 1711 – slanting, sloping
adj. 3. 1862– fast-going, quick, speedy; energetic, accomplishing much
adj. 4. Bk1905 – of clouds: gathering, scouring (Sc. obs.)
n. 1700 – playing the rake; dissolute living, dissoluteness, debauchery, profligacy
 
• RAKING-DOWN
n. 1854 – a scolding; an onslaught of words; a reprimand (Eng. & Amer. dial.)
 
• RAKING-OUT
n. 1966 – a sharp scolding (Amer. dial.)
 
• RAKING-OVER
n. 1965 – a sharp scolding (Amer. dial.)
 
• RAKINGS AND SCRAPINGS OF THE EARTH
n. 1966 – very insignificant or low-grade people (Amer. dial.)
 
• RAKISH
adj. 1. 1706– profligate, dissolute, debauched
adj. 2. 1847– smart, fashionable
 
• RAKISHLY
adv. 1838– jauntily, cheerfully, light-heartedly
 
• RAKISHNESS
n. 1832 – debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy
 
• RAKKI
n. a dog …1908 Sc.
 
• RAKKIE
adj. in poor condition, skinny, emaciated …1967 Sc.
 
• RAKLI
n. a girl, a woman …2000 UK gypsy usage
 
• RAKUSSING
adj. noisy, boisterous, obstreperous …1879 Eng. dial.
 
• RAL
n. syphilis; a case of syphilis …1899 Amer. sl.
 
• THE RAL
n. syphilis; a case of syphilis …20C Amer. sl.
 
• RALE
n. syphilis …1956 Amer. sl.
 
• RALEIGH BIKE
n. a lesbian …1950s rhyming sl. for ‘dyke’
 
• RALING
adj. flying away, straying …1618 obs. rare
 
• RALLACK
n. a roving character; an idle good-for-nothing …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. to romp; to run after pleasure instead of attending to business …1790 Eng. & Amer. dial.
 
• RALLACK AWAY
vb. to do anything quickly …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RALLERY
n. 1. raillery, banter, good-humoured ridicule …1651 obs.
n. 2. a jesting or playful action; a joke …1653 obs. rare
 
• RALLIACH
adj. of the sea: choppy, showing signs of an approaching storm …c1850
 
• RALLIANCE
n. the act of rallying …1848
 
• RALLIE
n. a quarrel, a row …1929 Sc.
vb. to scold, to chide, to speak angrily to …1790 Sc.
 
• RALLIER
n. one who banters …1678 rare
vb. to rally …1619 obs. rare
 
• RALLIGUT
n. a person who talks too much; a chatterbox …1929 Sc.
 
• RALLIMENT
n. rallying …1655 obs. rare
 
• RALLION
n. a din, clatter …1790 Sc.
 
• RALLOCK
n. 1. a piece of meat …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 2. a tattered garment; a rag …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 
• RALLY
adj. noisy, quarrelsome, disputatious, as one in drink …1708 Sc.
n. 1. a piece of boisterous fun; a romp …1815 Sc.
n. 2. a disorderly crowd; a boisterous assembly of people; a great gathering …1815 Sc.
n. 3. the act of crowding together in a disorderly manner …1815 Sc.
n. 4. a piece of rallying or banter …1832 rare
n. 5. a sudden rush, a quick involuntary movement, a lurch, like the staggering of a drunk man; a quick pace …1880 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 6. an angry scolding; a wrangling; a quarrel, a row …Bk1905 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
n. 7. a violent, clamorous ringing of a bell …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 8. a lorry …1923 Sc.
vb. 1. to treat or assail with banter, pleasantry, or good-humoured ridicule; to make fun or game of …1679 arch.
vb. 2. to scold; to speak loud …1790 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
vb. 3. to attack vigorously …1812 boxing usage
vb. 4. to make a loud or sharp noise …1821 Eng. dial.
vb. 5. to wander back and forwards in a restless, disorderly manner …1866 Sc.
vb. 6. to crowd, to press round, to bunch together; to romp around together …1866 Sc.
vb. 7. to go quickly; to hurry on …1888 Eng. dial.
vb. 8. to crack a whip …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 9. to make sport in a disorderly manner; to walk backwards and forwards in disorder …Bk1905 Sc.
vb. 10. to rouse; to wake a person …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
vb. 11. to have a good time; to act utterly madly, drunkenly, or obstreperously; to party …1960s US college sl.
vb. 12. to go out drinking …1974 US sl.
 
• RALLY DOG
n. a dog trained to herd cattle …1954 Amer. dial.
 
• RALLYIN’-SHOP
n. a rendezvous; a meeting-place …1881 Eng. dial.
 
• RALLY UP
n. a prison riot …1960s Aust. sl.
 
• RALPH
adj. weak, silly, foolish …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 1. a country bumpkin; a simpleton …M17 sl.
n. 2. a pawnbroker’s ticket …c1860 sl.
n. 3. the common raven …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
n. 4. a chamber-pot …1923 Sc. jocular  usage
n. 5. an effeminate, timid, or plain and undistinguished man …1950s homosexual sl.
n. 6. vomit; vomiting …1968 Amer. sl.
n. 7. a right turn …1968 US sl.
n. 8. vomit …1975 US sl.
n. 9. the penis …1980s US students’ sl.
vb. to vomit; often followed by ‘up’ …1967 sl., orig. and chiefly US
 
• RALPHED UP
adj. dressed in a smart casual style …1997 UK sl.
 
• RALPH LYNN
n. gin …1920s rhyming sl.
 
• RALPH-SPOONER
n. a fool …L17 Eng. dial. & sl.
 
• RALTALLACKS
n. rags and tatters …Bk1905 Eng. dial.