Example sentences for: jakes

How can you use “jakes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • , in the chapter on “Bodily Effluvia”) where, for example, john, jakes, bog, crapper are said to “tend to the dysphemistic,” whatever that means.

  • Patridge also says that the term is now obsolete, but to this day the blocks of toilets at my old school, St. Edmund's College in Hertfordshire, are affectionately known as Jakes Tower.

  • Shakespeare uses jakes confidently in King Lear (c. 1605):

  • It is slang for chamberpot and, like jakes , could be the familiar variant of a proper name ( Jeremiah or Jeremy ).

  • My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him.


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