Reverse Dictionary: PROFLIGATE

ADJECTIVES
► BAD profligate, tyrannical, and cruel in conduct → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CORINTHIAN licentious, profligate; given to elegant dissipation → 1642
► RAKE-HELL profligate, dissolute, debauched → 1556
► RAKEHELLISH profligate, dissolute, debauched → 1824
► RAKEHELLY profligate, dissolute, debauched → 1579
► RAKELY profligate, dissolute, debauched → 1694 obs.
► RAKING profligate, dissolute, debauched, dissipated → a1704
► RAKISH profligate, dissolute, debauched → 1706

NOUNS
► RAKEISM debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy → 1775 obs.
► RAKERY rakish conduct; debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy; social excitement → 1728 obs.
► RAKING playing the rake; dissolute living, dissoluteness, debauchery, profligacy → 1700
► RAKISHNESS debauchery, dissoluteness, profligacy → 1832
► RIBALDRY ► RIBAUDRY indecency; profligate talk → 1599 sl.
► RIBBLE-RABBLE indecent or profligate talk, ribaldry → 19C Eng. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BAUDY-BASKET a cant term for a bad or profligate woman → 1855 (Bk.)
► BIRD a dissolute, profligate, or degenerate person → 1842 US sl.
► CHUN a profligate woman → 1880 Eng. dial. obs.
► CORINTHIAN a wealthy man; a profligate idler; a dissolute or licentious man; also, a shameless or brazen-faced fellow → 1575 obs.
► CYPRIAN a licentious or profligate person; later, a lewd woman, a harlot, a prostitute, a courtesan → 1598
► DANT a sexually loose woman; a profligate woman; a promiscuous woman; a harlot, a prostitute → a1529 obs.
► DINGTHRIFT a person who is wasteful, reckless, or extravagant with money or resources; a profligate person, a spendthrift → 1566
► DOWNDRAUGHT a profligate or extravagant person; a ne’er-do-well → 1835 obs., chiefly Sc.
► HELL-RAISER a person who leads a life of low pleasures; a profligate, a libertine → 1914 US sl.
► LIBERTINE a dissolute person; a profligate
► OATMEAL one of a band of dissipated, riotous, or profligate young men who infested the streets of London in the 17th century; a profligate roisterer; a ‘roaring boy’ → 1624 sl. obs.
► RABSHACKLE ► RABSHAKLE a ne’er-do-well; a wastrel; an idle profligate → 1852 obs. (Bk.)
► RIBALD ► RIBAUD a profligate, male or female → 1360 sl.
► WAGTAIL a term of contempt for a profligate or inconstant woman; hence, a wanton woman, a prostitute, a harlot, a courtesan → 1592 obs.
► WANWAY a good-for-nothing, profligate, worthless person → 1893 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANWEARD a good-for-nothing, profligate, worthless person → 1855 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► WANWORTH a worthless, profligate person → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► ZIPPER a male profligate → 1990 

VERBS
► BADDLE to spend profligately → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HAVE ONE’S BREAD BUTTERED ON BOTH SIDES to enjoy a prosperous, fortunate, or extravagant lifestyle; to be profligate or wasteful → 1678