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In a historical context, a rake (short for rakehell, analogous to "hellraiser") was a man who was habituated to immoral conduct, particularly womanizing. Often, a rake was also prodigal, wasting his (usually inherited) fortune on gambling, wine, women, and song, and incurring lavish debts in the process. Cad is a closely related term.
Stock characters from Commedia dell'Arte — which gave each character a standard costume, so easily identifiable — continued across many types of theater, dramatic storytelling, and fiction. A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional ...
Аԥсшәа; العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Català; Чӑвашла; Español; Esperanto; Euskara
A stock character, also known as a character archetype, is a type of character in a narrative (e.g. a novel, play, television show, or film) whom audiences recognize across many narratives or as part of a storytelling tradition or convention.
Rake (tool), a horticultural implement, a long-handled tool with tines; Rake (stock character), a man habituated to immoral conduct; Rake (poker), the commission taken by the house when hosting a poker game; Raking fire, fire along the axis of a ship in naval warfare
The "rake" was a well known character in life and on the stage in the 17th century and later. Dragging in such recherche slang words of a different era and different meaning as cad, and bounder and heel is inaccurate, inappropriate and just plain weird.
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The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.