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▪ I. jake, n.1 U.S. colloq.|dʒeɪk|
[Prob. the personal name Jake, abbrev. of Jacob.]
A rustic lout or simpleton: usually country jake.
a1854, etc. [see country jake s.v. country 16]. 1884G. W. Peck Peck's Boss Bk. 68 A masher, like many of the Jakes of the present day. 1915Dialect Notes IV. 199 He's no jake even though he did come from a Nebraska farm. 1941H. S. Truman Let. 5 Oct. in M. Truman Harry S. Truman (1973) viii. 142 You'd think I was Cicero or Cato. But I'm not. Just a country jake who works at the job.
▪ II. jake, n.2 slang (orig. U.S.).|dʒeɪk|
[Abbrev. form of Jamaica (ginger).]
An alcoholic beverage made from Jamaica ginger. b. Methylated spirits used as an alcoholic drink.
1926[see hip a.]. 1932Fortn. Rev. Mar. 324 Over twenty-five per cent. are ‘jake’ or ‘feke’ drinkers... They drink methylated spirits. 1935H. Neville Sneak Thief on Road ii. 162 That's pure meths... They call it Blue Billy or jake, and it's known among all tramps and kip⁓houses and wherever men have empty lives. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath x. 131 He would drink jake or whisky until he was a shaken paralytic.
▪ III. jake, a. slang (orig. U.S.).|dʒeɪk|
[Origin obscure.]
Excellent, admirable, fine, ‘O.K.’
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 48 As an adjective ‘jake’ means good; satisfactory; acceptable; all-right. 1921P. & T. Casey in Adventure (U.S.) 18 May 40/2 Well, if it is Jerrold, everything's jake. 1924P. Marks Plastic Age xxii. 247 She said the whole college seemed jake to her. 1924Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror vi. 130 Everything was jake with Horace. 1930[see by prep. 33 e]. 19432 N.Z.E.F. Times 10 May 5/1 She'll be Jake on the counter. 1947D. M. Davin Gorse blooms Pale 190 We'll just give [the tea] a minute to draw and she'll be jake. 1958R. France Race 100 ‘Will you be all right..if I lie down in the wheelhouse?’..‘I'm jake. You have a rest.’ 1958‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock viii. 105 ‘If it's about the election we vote conservative here.’ ‘Jake by me,’ said Mr. Crook politely. 1967Southerly XXVII. 149 ‘Is she [sc. a train] on time?’..‘She's jake tonight mate.’ 1970N.Z. Listener 12 Oct. 12/4 Long as there's plenty of beer, she'll be jake.
So jake(a)loo, jakerloo a. Austral. and N.Z. slang, in the same sense.
1919W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 29 Jake-aloo. 1936N. Marsh Death in Ecstasy xvii. 211 It'll all come out what the Australians call ‘jakealoo’. 1936‘R. Hyde’ Passport to Hell xi. 174 Jakeloo, Starkie; she's a little beauty, clean through my arm. 1938X. Herbert Capricornia xii. 169 ‘Lambkin, you're not wounded, are you?’..‘Na—ow! I'm jakerloo.’ ‘You're what?’ she demanded, looking scared. ‘Jakerloo Mum, jakerloo.’ ‘What—not a disease, my darling?’ ‘Na—ow—that's French for ‘I'm good-o’.’ 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai viii. 123 Jakeloo! Let's have the names then, and the addresses.
▪ IV. jake
earlier form of jauk v. Sc., to trifle. |