 The writer of the novel, Anthony Burgess (qv), claimed that the  term "clockwork orange" was a Cockney phrase, but most philologists  agree that there has never been any such phrase until the appearance  of his book. Burgess lived in Malaysia during the 1940s, and the  Malay word for man is "orang", from which "orangutan" (man of the  jungle) is derived. There is, however, an English slang expression  for a gambling device known as the "one