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Jakester

Jakester is the diminutive of Jake.

Meaning of Jake

Proper noun

Jake (plural Jakes)

  1. A male given name.
    • Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake."1927, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 3, in The Sun Also Rises

See all 8 meanings of jake

Origin of Jakester

From Jake + -ster.

Questions about Jakester

What is Jakester the diminutive of?
Jakester is the diminutive of Jake.

Words near Jakester in the dictionary

  1. jakes-house
  2. jakes-houses
  3. jakeses
  4. jakeshouse
  5. jakeshouses
  6. Jakester
  7. jakey
  8. jakeys
  9. jakfruit
  10. jakfruits
  11. jakhalsbessie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jakester (page history and authors); Jake (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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