/d͡ʒeɪks/
OriginFrom Middle English Jake (variant of “Jack”) or Jakke (variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the form jacques. Compare terms such as US slang Cousin John and Quincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting".
- Ireland, uncountable, usuallyA place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
“My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes with him.”
“[…] Whereas the Truth-finder, having raked out that Jakes his own Mind, and being there capable of tracing no Ray of Divinity, nor any thing virtuous, or good, or lovely, or loving, very fairly, hones”
“And the treasures of the floor and walls went raw into the jakeses from my brush and dustpan: sludges, geodes, hair, dead insects and arachnidae, a rubber glove and tainted paper waste, a mouse's skul”
- form-of, pluralplural of jake
- form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-personthird-person singular simple present indicative of jake
Formsjakeses(plural) · jacks(alternative) · jacques(alternative) · jakes's(alternative) · jakeses(alternative)
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