1985 (con. 1920s) A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston’s (1991) 3: All the families shared the landin’ cludgey.at cludgie, n.
1985 (con. 1920s) A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston’s (1991) 15: And the next-to-skin garb most universally loathed was undoubtedly combinations. Miss Nancy Wall speaks for generations of the tormented, buttoned into combies, ‘I hated them ... all tight and sore between your legs’.at combie, n.
1985 (con. 1920s) A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston’s (1991) 11: It was aye a pipe-dream that we would were to get a big house some day [...] Pie in the sky!at pie in the sky (n.) under pie, n.
1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston’s (1991) 2: Whatever else has often been said about them, and however scunnered some of the tenants may at times have been, they were, and are, versatile houses.at scunner, v.