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- noun   A homeless drunk 
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								Edit Alferd I can confirm that I was lmao when he said the word jakey The Kane thing seemed to be a Super Swerve of the Century. 
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								Edit Alferd I can confirm that I was lmao when he said the word jakey The Kane thing seemed to be a Super Swerve of the Century. 
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								Edit Alferd I can confirm that I was lmao when he said the word jakey The Kane thing seemed to be a Super Swerve of the Century. 
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								Edit Alferd I can confirm that I was lmao when he said the word jakey The Kane thing seemed to be a Super Swerve of the Century. 
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								Edit Alferd I can confirm that I was lmao when he said the word jakey 
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								Edit Alferd I can confirm that I was lmao when he said the word jakey 
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								Edit Alferd I can confirm that I was lmao when he said the word jakey 
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								(A "jakey", for those of you outside Scotland, is a wee old Scottish drunk of the type that doesn't actually ask for money, just waylays you with friendly singing and/or mad rants, often initiated with an "A'righ 'rere by ra way, big man?" and accompanied by the Buckfast bottle/Tennents can salute.) Things To Come Hal Duncan 2006 
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								(A "jakey", for those of you outside Scotland, is a wee old Scottish drunk of the type that doesn't actually ask for money, just waylays you with friendly singing and/or mad rants, often initiated with an "A'righ 'rere by ra way, big man?" and accompanied by the Buckfast bottle/Tennents can salute.) Archive 2006-10-01 Hal Duncan 2006 
chained_bear commented on the word jakey
"Jakey's Gin" by Great Big Sea.
February 9, 2008 
			
		
	
MaryW commented on the word jakey
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 162.May 30, 2016