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jakes

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See also:JakesandJakeš

English

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Alternative forms

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jacks
jacques,jakes's,jakeses(obsolete)

Etymology

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FromMiddle EnglishJake(variant of “Jack”) orJakke(variant of “Jacques” and “Jack”). Use as a place to urinate and defecate first attested in the formjacques.^[1] Compare terms such as US slangCousin John andQuincy, used as euphemistic personifications the speaker was "visiting".

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /d͡ʒeɪks/
Rhymes:-eɪks
Audio(Southern England): (file)

Noun

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jakes (usuallyuncountable,pluraljakeses)

(now chiefly Ireland) Aplace tourinate anddefecate: anouthouse orlavatory.
Synonyms:outhouse;see alsoThesaurus:bathroom
- c.1603–1606,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene ii]:
  My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of ajakes with him.
- 1749,Henry Fielding, chapter 1, inThe History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:A[ndrew] Millar, […],→OCLC, book VI,page269:
  […] Whereas the Truth-finder, having raked out thatJakes 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, honestly, and logically concludes, that no such things exist in the whole Creation.
- 1994,Derek Beaven,Newton’s Niece, Fourth Estate, published1999, page 8:
  And the treasures of the floor and walls went raw into thejakeses 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,[…]