> > Never heard "cludgie," but rather like it. Derivation?
> >
> In Australia, there are many uses
> including 'dunny', 'ladies', 'gents', 'shithouse', 'outhouse', 'loo'. My
uncle
> also used to say 'houses of parliament'.
>
> Jill
To conflate Mark's question and Jill's antipodean observation -- both are
Glagow terms. A cludgie (dunno the derivation) is an outside toilet, which
would be found beside the dunny (or communal dustbin).
Both are found tucked behind Glasgow four-story tenements.
At least that's my -- I was about to say understanding, but perhaps
experience might be more accurate.
But, curiously enough, the cludgie/dunny distinction can be found in variant
versions of "Codliver Oil and the Orange Juice". In one version, Hairy Mary
and her hardman are interrupted when:
Oot came her mammie tae go tae the cludgie.
... in another:
Oot came her mammie tae go tae the dunny.
I have a horrible feeling that the original Carl McDougal text actually
+read+ dunny. [I could check on this if anyone cares.] But then C McD
didn't grow up in Denniston in the shadow of the Palais, so what would he
know?
A ha sahara an ra camels ...
Robin
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