origins of "kludge"

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Huw Davies wrote:
> 
> On 30/03/2005, at 11:57 AM, Tom Jennings wrote:
> 
>> I know this could be the start of YET ANOTHER thread "Oh I think
>> it's older than that..." but to avoid that, let's raise the
>> standard from opinion/hearsay to printed word.
> 
> 
> Well kludge has been in common use in Queensland (Australia) since at 
> least the early 1900s as the name of an outside toilet. This probably 
> pre-dates any computing reference :-)
> 
> In Queensland it's pronounced to rhyme with judge,

Doubtless from the Scots word "cludgie", meaning outside toilet.  Since 
we don't have those any more, it refers to any rather squalid toilet - 
think about the bookmaker scene in Trainspotting.

Gordon.