Cludgie
For those not familair with the term cludgie here's how the
Dictionary of the Scots language defines cludgie as “a slang term for a water-closet”.
Many of our examples hark back to the days of shared tenement toilets. In Anna Blair’s Tea at Miss Cranston’s (1985), based on the reminiscences of Glasgow folk, one contributor recalls: “There was no bathroom in that place mind ... and all the families shared the landin’ cludgey”; a situation that created a “longing for elegant porcelain” in Christine Marion Fraser (Green Are My Mountains, 1990) which “stemmed from my Govan days when there was just a stairhead ‘cludge’ with newspaper squares pinned on the door and bigger squares decorating the scrubbed wooden floor.”
The term is still very much in use, popping up in a poem by Stuart A Paterson called Slater (published by the Ulster Scots Community Network in February 2023). “Oan the flair o ma cludgie Ah fin a slater, It insae there ten meenits later. Ah’m feart o speeders an alligators, but mair than thon Ah’m feart of slaters.”
You may have to use the dictionary to translate this poem.
Thanks to fellow blipper Pleach(www.blipfoto.com/entry/3349912197865145623 ) for reminding me about this site of dereliction
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