jakes
noun
an outdoor privy; outhouse.
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jakes
1 American
[jayks]
/ dʒeɪks /
noun
(usually used with a plural verb)
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an outdoor privy; outhouse.
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a toilet or bedpan.
Jakes
2
American
[jayks]
/ dʒeɪks /
noun
jakes
British
/ dʒeɪks /
noun
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an archaic slang word for lavatory
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dialect human excrement
Etymology
Origin of jakes
1525–35; < French Jacques, proper name; cf. john
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In fact, many of his fellow jakes didn’t know until recently that he had MS.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 3, 2017
“Teenage males, or jakes, that are habituated to people get a bit aggressive.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2016
It seems innocuous, but in original pronunciation, it may have sounded like, he is a jakes, which is a toilet.
From Time ● Sep. 20, 2013
"We're seeing about 50 times more jakes than long beards," said Ray Henard of SaltFork Hunts in Wellington, Texas.
From Scientific American ● May 20, 2013
Peter is such a champion he can stand in the jakes and throw up without using his finger.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
Sister Jakes home-schooled her child, who was then five, after deciding the risk of him bringing the illness home was too great.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2025
Jakes “to soften the impact on his public image of Cassie Ventura’s lawsuit.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Sarah Jakes Roberts is well-known as the daughter of Bishop T.D.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
Jakes to seal our union in front of 2,000 guests that we would be feeding lobster, crab cakes, bald eagle meat and lobster and crab macaroni too.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2023
In other circumstances the name of Ellen Mary Jakes might have stood for individual achievement; instead of that, she is remembered as a common woman who happened to be the mother of Victor Stott.
From The Wonder by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford
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