Jakes
Origin 1
Full definition of jakes
Noun
jakes
- (dated) A privy or latrine.
- Fielding Tom Jones|VI|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.