Do you know what a 'rakehell' is?

Trey

I'm butting heads with customisation and they're claiming it's obscure. I know what it means, I've seen it in contemporary literature with a somewhat regular frequency, and a simple Google search yields six results for books with rakehell in the -title- on the first page alone.

Jules

No, I didn't, but I don't see why that's a problem. 

Orzaansyn

I also seen it in litterature, indeed...

Sena

I've read it in books before, though I can't remember exactly where.

Jules

It's a pirate shirt! 

Bluef

CLANHELP RAW
Gathering those who are shunned from the cities and Houses of the realm, or who spurn their overly-principled natures, this clan encourages members to live outside the norms or controls of Achaean society. Gypsies, thieves, tricksters, rakehells, mystics, wayfarers, orphans, knaves, beggars, hooligans, tramps, scallywags, buccaneers, renegades, ne'er-do-wells, and like souls are among those welcome in this space.

Yep.

Kerria

By this definition.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rakehell

Herenicus

Bad rakes go there when they die.

Kez

I knew rake, but not rakehell until I googled it just now. It's the same word, so why not just go with rake if they'll allow it?

Edit: Not sure when obscure words became a problem though.

Achimrst

rakehell

/ˈreɪkˌhɛl/

noun

1.

a dissolute man; rake

adjective

2.

profligate; dissolute

Word Origin

C16: from rake 1 + hell ; but compare Middle English rakel rash

Eld

Yes, but I see it rarely enough, compared with "rake", that I felt the need to double-check that I was right before chiming in.  

Santar

According to dictionary.com, few English speakers likely know this word.

Also, based on browsing through a few words, dictionary.com is usually pretty optimistic with how many people know a word. It says "most English speakers know this word" with some words I definitely think would throw most of my friends for a loop.


So when it says "few", well, it's a pretty rare word. The community for Achaea probably has a lot higher average vocabulary than the average person, though.


To answer the thread: I didn't know the word. And apparently neither did Herenicus. And that guy pretty much talks in riddles non-stop.

Haldon

In truth I only know rakehell from when I was looking up the definition of another word. I've never seen it in anything I've read before or since. Sounds like a Stephen Donaldson word.

Klendathu

Few people know it, have it in your description and a few more people will know it.

Halos

I know "rakish" as an adjective close to this meaning. I've only known rakes for yardwork though, and @Herenicus already posted my guess for the meaning of rakehell without googling it.

Shirszae

Eh, since when its a word being obscure a problem for a customisation? If its a valid word and it makes sense in context and valid for the setting then thats all that ought matter.

Exelethril

A hell where instead of fire, you have to reside in an endless sea of extremely sharp rakes?

Rohai

I have heard "rake" used to mean this, but had no idea it was short for "rakehell."

Jules

I forgot to mention in my first post that I'm surprised this is a customization problem.  I thought it was crafting that has these problems of extreme nitpicking (probably because, as I'd never know until fairly recently, it's a player collective interpreting the rules as they see them). 

Silas

No. What's the argument, though?

Trey

None, now. We arrived at a healthy compromise.

Ognog

Hadn't heard that one before, but then delightfully unusual words are commonplace in the verdant stygian prismatic cerulean world that is Achaea!

If you're talking like you just swallowed a dictionary, you must have been to Achaea!

Tirui

I can't believe how many people don't know this word... *quietly packs away all her regency novels*

Kaijin

I knew it connotated something like vandal, rapscallion, or other nefarious type man so I guess close enough?