From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
> The word dunny must have come from the exclamation of a Glaswigian
> immigrant in Australia when he first saw one: "A dunny know what to call
it."
Strictly, a dunny was the area out the back of a tenement, within which the
cludgie (or shared outside toilet) was located. Typically (or at least the
one I lived in) the dunny and the cludgie would be shared by eight
families -- four stories, two families on each.
See:
Cod Liver Oil And The Orange Juice
(Ron Clark / Carl McDougall)
Doon through the back close an' intae the dunny
It wasnae for the first time
Ah haw, glory hallelujah ...
Then oot cam her mammy, she's goin' tae the cludgie
Oh oh, ah buggered off sharpish
Ah haw, glory hallelujah ...
http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/c/codliver.html
... for the full text.
Para Handy
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