"jakey" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: jakeys [plural], jakies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|s|jakies}} jakey (plural jakeys or jakies)
  1. (chiefly Scotland) A homeless drunk. Tags: Scotland

Inflected forms

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jakeys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jakies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "jakies"
      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 4:",
          "text": "There is a noise, now that she's properly awake, but it's not the hard laughter of youths, nor the drunken singing of the old jakeys who sometimes set up camp in one of the empty flats.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A homeless drunk."
      ],
      "id": "en-jakey-en-noun-bGlFWEGU",
      "links": [
        [
          "homeless",
          "homeless"
        ],
        [
          "drunk",
          "drunk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly Scotland) A homeless drunk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "jakey"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jakeys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jakies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "s",
        "2": "jakies"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English nouns with irregular plurals",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 4:",
          "text": "There is a noise, now that she's properly awake, but it's not the hard laughter of youths, nor the drunken singing of the old jakeys who sometimes set up camp in one of the empty flats.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A homeless drunk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "homeless",
          "homeless"
        ],
        [
          "drunk",
          "drunk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly Scotland) A homeless drunk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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