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jakes

noun
/d͡ʒeɪks/

Etymology

From 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".

  1. derived from Jake

Definitions

  1. A place to urinate and defecate

    A 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.
    • 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 skull and tail, a set of used plasters, […]

  2. plural of jake

  3. third-person singular simple present indicative of jake

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A surname.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for jakes. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA