jakey

English

Noun

jakey (plural jakeys or jakies)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A homeless drunk.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 4:

     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.