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单词 cludgie
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Definition of cludgie in English:

cludgie

nounPlural cludgies ˈklʌdʒiˈkləjē
Scottish informal
  • A toilet.

    three people needed hospital treatment in Glasgow after old cludgies collapsed beneath them
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A brick cludgie would come apart at the seams in his presence.
    • Descartes worked best in an oven, Luther in a cludgie - or so we are told.
    • The crumbling cludgie, bathed in moonlight, lay even closer to the ground than it had in Effie's time.
    • Policemen are definitely younger, and manners have gone down the cludgie, right down.
    • Hines would go in and tell the desk clerk himself just as soon as he felt capable of leaving the cludgie.
    • But until his dying day he refused to refurbish the cludgie in any way, maintaining that that was the duty of our landlord.
    • The Hispanic chap was cleaning the washrooms (cludgies to youse).
    • The stairhead cludgie door was ajar, which it hadn't been when I'd left.
    • If things were rough it would be a room-and-kitchen or maybe just a single-end wi' a landin' cludgie.

Origin

1960s: origin uncertain.

Definition of cludgie in US English:

cludgie

nounˈkləjē
Scottish informal
  • A toilet or bathroom.

    he took turns at cleaning the cludgie in the flat
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The stairhead cludgie door was ajar, which it hadn't been when I'd left.
    • The crumbling cludgie, bathed in moonlight, lay even closer to the ground than it had in Effie's time.
    • Policemen are definitely younger, and manners have gone down the cludgie, right down.
    • Descartes worked best in an oven, Luther in a cludgie - or so we are told.
    • If things were rough it would be a room-and-kitchen or maybe just a single-end wi' a landin' cludgie.
    • But until his dying day he refused to refurbish the cludgie in any way, maintaining that that was the duty of our landlord.
    • Hines would go in and tell the desk clerk himself just as soon as he felt capable of leaving the cludgie.
    • A brick cludgie would come apart at the seams in his presence.
    • The Hispanic chap was cleaning the washrooms (cludgies to youse).

Origin

1960s: origin uncertain.

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