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Definitions for Jakes

[1] an outdoor privy; outhouse.
[2] a toilet or bedpan.
[3] John, born 1932, U.S. novelist.
[4] a homemade or bootleg liquor made from or infused with Jamaica ginger, especially during Prohibition in the U.S.
[5] Also called jake leg, jake-leg paralysis. paralysis caused by drinking this or other liquor made with denatured alcohol.
[6] a male given name, form of Jacob.
[7] an archaic slang word for lavatory
[8] Southwest English dialect human excrement
[9] satisfactory; all right
[10] she's jake everything is under control

Words related to Jakes

bumpkin, lout, buffoon, clodhopper, boor, hillbilly, hayseed, yokel, hick, dolt, rube, oaf, bucolic, hind, blockhead, yahoo, gawk, chuff, rustic, peasant

Words nearby Jakes

jaipur, jajapura, jak, jakarta, jake, jakes, jakey, jakob-creutzfeldt disease, jakob-creutzfeldt syndrome, jakobson, jalal ud-din rumi

Origin of Jakes

21925–30, Americanism ; apparently alteration of Jamaica (ginger)

Word origin for Jakes

probably from the name Jake

Synonyms for Jakes

bumpkin, boor, clodhopper, dolt, hayseed, hick, hillbilly, yokel