Meg vs Jake - What's the difference?

meg | jake |

As a noun jake is

collar.

come.

(en proper noun)

A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.

* 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies :

Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,

And tall as Amazon:

An old red blanket cloak she wore,

A chip-hat had she on.

* 1985 , World's Fair , Fawcett Crest 1986, ISBN 0449212378, page 208

My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.

'What kind of name is that,' she said.

'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg .'

'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'

(en adjective)

(slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.

*1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 126:

*:‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake .’

(en noun)

(US) A juvenile male turkey.

* 1998 , Jerome B Robinson, In the Turkey Woods

The spring turkey woods are occupied by roaming bands of jakes — year-old males with strong mating urges but inferior body size.