jakes

[ jeyks ]

/ dʒeɪks /

noun (usually used with a plural verb) Chiefly Dialect.

an outdoor privy; outhouse.

a toilet or bedpan.

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Origin of jakes

1525–35; < French Jacques, proper name; cf. john

Jakes

[ jeyks ]

/ dʒeɪks /

noun

John,born 1932, U.S. novelist.

jake

[ jeyk ]

/ dʒeɪk /

noun Slang.

a homemade or bootleg liquor made from or infused with Jamaica ginger, especially during Prohibition in the U.S.

Also called jake leg, jake-leg paralysis. paralysis caused by drinking this or other liquor made with denatured alcohol.

Origin of jake

1925–30, Americanism; apparently alteration of Jamaica (ginger)

Jake

[ jeyk ]

/ dʒeɪk /

noun

a male given name, form of Jacob.

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Examples from the Web for jakes

Jakes is not alone in believing that your family must stay your family no matter how hurtful or dysfunctional they may be.
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Jakes says he believes in the axiom that the act of forgiveness is not really a gift to others as much as it is a gift to oneself.
Bishop T.D. Jakes on His New Book and Whitney Houston’s Death|Allison Samuels|March 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Jakes has spoken about the issue so much that he decided a full-length book on the art of forgiveness was required.
Bishop T.D. Jakes on His New Book and Whitney Houston’s Death|Allison Samuels|March 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Jakes says he shared a short but unique bond with Houston that developed on the set of Sparkle late last year.
Bishop T.D. Jakes on His New Book and Whitney Houston’s Death|Allison Samuels|March 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST

"I've made a few good friends over the years," says Jakes with a laugh on the phone from his Texas home.
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Come down at once, and put a bar across, because Jakes must have his supper.
Perlycross|R. D. Blackmore
Then followed the story of Mrs. Jakes, with all its horror, all the greater from the obscurity of the details.
By What Authority?|Robert Hugh Benson
Sergeant Jakes, with his stiff stock on, might be preached at for ever, without fetching a blink.
Perlycross|R. D. Blackmore
By Gosh, that Jakes sure is ole, fer hes been er luggin round these parts with one foot half-buried fer the last ten years.
The Liberty Girl|Rena I. Halsey
Now you can't imagine Miss Jakes bending; she'd have to stoop.'
Franklin Kane|Anne Douglas Sedgwick

British Dictionary definitions for jakes

jakes

/ (dʒeɪks) /

noun

an archaic slang word for lavatory

Southwest English dialect human excrement

Word Origin for jakes

C16: probably from French Jacques James

jake

/ (dʒeɪk) /

adjective Australian and NZ slang

satisfactory; all right

she's jake everything is under control

Word Origin for jake

probably from the name Jake

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Word Origin and History for jakes

jakes

"a privy," mid-15c., genitive singular of jack (n.).

Jake

colloquial or familiar abbreviation of the masc. proper name Jacob (q.v.). As the typical name of a rustic lout, from 1854. (Jakey still is the typical name for "an Amishman" among the non-Amish of Pennsylvania Dutch country). Slang meaning "excellent, fine" is from 1914, American English, of unknown origin.

jakes

noun (usually used with a plural verb) Chiefly Dialect.

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