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Aug 2, 2001 This week's theme Words evolved using folk etymologies This week's words humble_pie kickshaw wiseacre rakehell chaise longue Words, language & more Join us in our discussion forum: Wordsmith Talk Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg rakehell rakehell (RAYK-hel) noun A licentious or immoral person. [By folk etymology from Middle English rakel, rash, hasty.] "The instrument had previously been owned - witness the title 'ex. Paganini' - by that notorious rakehell and virtuoso, who sold it to Vuillaume." Nicholas Delbanco; The Countess of Stanlein Restored; Harper's Magazine (New York); Jan 2001. X-Bonus In truth everything and everyone / Is a shadow of the Beloved, / And our seeking is His seeking / And our words are His words... / We search for Him here and there, / while looking right at Him. / Sitting by His side, we ask: / "O Beloved, where is the Beloved?" -Rumi, poet and mystic (1207-1273)

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