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jakesn. Origin: Probably from a proper name. Etymons: proper name Jaques; proper name Jakke. Etymology: Probably either < the male forename Jaques (see jack n.1), Jakes, or < the genitive of the common male forename Jakke (see Jack n.2), in either case showing an arbitrary euphemistic use of the forename.For a possible situation in which such use could have arisen compare discussion at cuz-john n. Now somewhat dated or archaic. 1. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] 1432 Bailiff's Acct., Grantchester in at Jak(ke For hors nayl..An for hokys and hyngys to Jakys..An for erne wrowt to yowre berune gatis. 1538 Inventory in (1871) 43 226 The jakes of the dorter. 1552 R. Huloet Siege, iacques, bogard, or draught, latrina. 1596 J. Harington sig. G3v Not annoyd with stinch of any Jakes. 1620 in G. Ornsby (1878) 145 To a tyller for tylling the jacks, vjd. 1633 W. Prynne ii. 856 They..dragged his carcase through the Citty and cast it into the common Iakes. 1657 in (1887) IV. 202 Noe close stoole, Jackes, Carrion or garbage be cast vpon the Ackers Middinge. 1701 C. Wooley 13 The more unhealthful it may prove, by reason of Jaques, Dunghills and other excrementitious stagnations. 1728 P. Walker (ed. 3) 150 He [sc. Arius] went..into a common Jack, and purg'd out all his Inwards. 1788 V. Knox I. ii. xv. 211 His book is a nasty book, and fit only for the jakes. 1842 J. Wills II. i. 49 They then went to the jakes, taking with them a long rope, by which they let themselves down through the jakes into the deep ditch that fenced the fortress all around. 1855 C. Kingsley (1861) 168 The fox..that..jumped down a jakes to escape the hounds. 1922 J. Joyce ii. iv. [Calypso] 66 He kicked open the crazy door of the jakes. 1944 M. Lowry Let. 4 Mar. in (1995) I. 439 Let's face it, he reads in the jakes. 1990 R. Doyle (1992) 20 I went into the jacks there this mornin' an' Linda was sittin' in there readin' a comic. 2005 10 Jan. (G2 section) 7 A seedy airport jakes. the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] > thing 1536 T. Revel tr. F. Lambert xi. f. 41 For verelye the monastycall secte is the well of ypocrysye, the Iakes of enuy, ydlenes, drunknes, grudges, hate ambyshon, and of all vnclenlynes. 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin 967/1 What vermine, I pray you, is there of Monkes, and Priestes, and all that Cleargie?..that filthie and stinking iaxe hath filled the world so full. 1637 G. Gillespie Epist. sig. B3 Cast forth as things accursed into the Iakes of eternall detestation. 1660 (single sheet) Hell..that stinking poysonous place called the Ile of Jaqueses. 1701 D. Defoe i. 15 We have been Europe's Sink, the Jakes where she Voids all her Offal Out-cast Progeny. 1753 T. Smollett I. i. 6 You..eagerly explore the jakes of Rabelais, for amusement. 1829 J. Bentham 173 The jakes, of late so notorious by the name of the Secondary's Office in the city of London. 1888 F. T. Elworthy Jakes,..2. Mess, confusion. 1892 S. Hewett 91 Ef yü'd azeed tha jakes 'er made wi' thickee there pudden, yü widden ayte wan mossel aw'n. 1898 tr. E. Drumont in F. C. Conybeare iii. 46 Look at this Ministry of War, which ought to be the sanctuary of patriotism, but which is a cavern, a jakes of endless scandals. 1909 E. Phillpotts 46 He's an untidy piece and a slobbery feeder, and he'll keep his house in a jakes of a mess; and whether he washes or not be a question I won't answer. 1980 F. Buechner 6 I scoop out the jakes of my remembrance, and he censes it all with his clerkish screed till it reeks of mass. 2004 L. Martines (2005) 53 Before you do any harm to us we'll make a jakes of your life. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > faeces > [noun] 1701 i. 5 That great City, plac'd..On a declining Hill (as Stories say) To drain descending filth and jakes away. 1847 J. O. Halliwell II Jakes,..applied in Devon to any kind of filth or litter. 1888 F. T. Elworthy Jakes, 1. Human excrement. Compounds C1. General attributive. 1557–8 in R. W. Goulding (1891) 110 One locke to the Jakes dore. 2002 J. Donnelly ii. 32 She heard the jakes door bang back on its hinges. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] 1547 in W. A. Shaw (1937) 27 A table with a clothe of Saynt George enbraudred... In the Jakes house a picture. 1701 C. Cooper iv. 98 He was taken with a Fear.., went to a Jakes House and there Voided his Guts. 2011 G. Files ix. 146 A rowster could live easy here, once the cobbles was laid down and the jakes-house row finally decided upon for sure, 'stead'a every man-jack just shittin' where he pleases. C2. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > [noun] > one who 1596 T. Nashe sig. V3 Like a iakes barreller and a Gorbolone. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > [noun] > one who 1591 R. Greene sig. C3v I will for reuenge onely appoint the Iakes farmers of London, who shall caze them in their filthy vesselles, and carrye them as dung to manure the barrain places of Tibourne. a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (1621) 1134 Iakes-farmers, Fidlers, Ostlers, Oysterers. 1799 J. Ebers III. 66/2 Scheihausfeger, der, a Jakes-Farmer, a Cleanser of Jakes, of Necessary-Houses. 2006 (Nexis) 18 Nov. 53 This has to be one of the least-coveted jobs on the planet: a jakes farmer was employed to empty cesspools. a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal (1673) iii. 37 Thence return'd they hire for gain (ne're grutch) Jakes-farming. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > emptying or cleaning of privies > [noun] > one who 1630 W. Davenant iii. sig. F2 On that branch appeares a Hangman. Then, A Iakes-man, then, a Tynker. 1718 E. Strother i. v. 40 Metallick Fumes are Dangerous to Diggers in Mines, Gilders,..Jakes-Men, Potters, [etc]. 1896 G. F. Northall 151 But ‘muckbird’, I am led to understand, is a name for a jakesman. 2013 R. Goodman iii. 98 In the Victorian period, the jakesmen charged around one shilling per privy. Derivatives 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. iv. 36 Flames from his eyes, from's mouth come Iakes-like fumes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1432 |
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