jakes

jakes
   a lavatory
   Just as you visit the John1 in modern
   America, so in the past you visited Jake's place.
   Dr Johnson's examples from Shakespeare, Swift, and Dryden are all lavatorial, although he defines the word as 'a house of office', using another euphemism:
    I will... daub the walls of a jakes with him. (Shakespeare, King Lear)
   Wits in the 18th and 19th centuries used Ajax, punning on the King of Salamis. In modern Irish English, it has been corrupted to jacks:
    He'd gone to the jacks. It was the only thing that ever made him hurry. (R. Doyle, 1996)

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  • Jakes — Jakes, n. [Prob. fr. F. Jacques, the proper name. See 2d {Jack}.] A privy. Shak. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • jakes — a privy, mid 15c., genitive singular of JACK (Cf. jack) (n.) …   Etymology dictionary

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