English

Proper noun

Jakes

1. A surname​.

English

Alternative forms

• jacks
• jacques, jakes's, jakeses (obsolete)

Noun

jakes ‎(usually uncountable, plural jakeses)

1. plural of jake in its various senses.
2. (now chiefly Ireland) A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Book VI, chapter i:

     […] whereas the truth-finder, having raked out that jakes, his own mind, and being there capable of tracing no ray of divinity, nor anything virtuous or good, or lovely, or loving, very fairly, honestly, and logically concludes that no such things exist in the whole creation.

   • 1999, Derek Beaven, Newton's Niece, p. 8:

     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, […]

Synonyms

• (place to urinate and defecate): See Wikisaurus:bathroom

Derived terms

• jakeshouse

Verb

jakes

1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of jake: to play a form of prank.

References

1. ↑ "jakes, n." in the Oxford English Dictionary (1900), Oxford: Oxford University Press.