Stinky Money

tomkatf wrote:

"I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar and daub the walls of a jakes
with him!"...Shakespeare

...and I wouldn't know a thing about it except for a copy of "A Dictionary of
Slang and Unconventional English", which says:

jakes, a privy: from c.1530

a "slightly obscure" usage and probably an abbreviation of "Jack's place"...

My thanks to ya, Tom!


Best,
Tom

...and isn't "A good fake by a wide receiver" actually a juke??

In most places at most times. But the move in which you 'give a leg' to
the defender and then take it away has been called a 'jake-leg' for as
long as I can remember, at least in these parts.

Alan
'stiff-armed and tight-lipped'


Alan & Erin Williams wrote:

Ed Hendricks wrote:

"Dale Hallmark" wrote in message

"Ed Hendricks" wrote in message
news:HOuYa.24687
A good fake by a wide receiver is called an outhouse? I'm getting
more and more confused by the minute. :-) And BTW, I've never
heard an outhouse called a 'Jake' and I grew up using them.

I have heard of someone having "Jake leg".
That was when someone had too much bad moonshine and had a few
convulsions. Don't know who Jake was but don't buy any of his hooch.

Dale

Don't know about "Jake leg" but have heard the term "jack leg" all my life.
Where I'm from it denotes an amateur craftsman as compared to one who is
trained and skilled in the craft. i.e. "He is a pretty good plumber but he
is only a jack leg carpenter".

I've found (so far on the Web) lots of references to 'jake or jakey' as
shoddily built, and one scottish (glaswegian) as a homeless person, but
no 'ahem' waste treatment reference. Maybe it's more regional than I knew....

Alan
'whats in a word'