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soogee-moogee Naut. slang.|ˈsuːdʒiːˌmuːdʒiː|
Also soogie-moogie, soojee-moojee, souji-mouji, sugi-mugi, etc. and without hyphens.
[Origin unknown.]
a. A mixture containing caustic soda used for cleaning paintwork and woodwork on ships and boats. Also attrib.
1882D. Kemp Yacht & Boat Sailing (ed. 3) 579 Soojee Moojee, a caustic composition sold by yacht fitters for cleaning off old paint, varnish, &c. 1894R. C. Leslie Waterbiography xiii. 248 A certain caustic composition, known to yachtsmen by the mysterious name of ‘skewgy-mewgy’. 1900F. T. Bullen Men of Merchant Service xiii. 120 No tramp second mate can hope to keep his hands out of the paint pot or the soogee-moogee bucket. 1903[see soogee v.]. 1907M. Roberts Flying Cloud xxiv. 229 She was as clean as a new pin with sand and canvas and souji-mouji. 1913A. W. Nelson Yankee Swanson 57 He had a good scrubbing down with ‘sudje mudje’. 1924P. Blundell Confessions of Seaman xii. 164 With a bucket containing hot soap and soda water—sougi-mougi sailors call it—he ascended ladders in the swaying engine-room and washed paint work. 1934J. Hanley in Spectator 26 Jan. 131/1 ‘There are no sailors to-day,’ says [Conrad], ‘only Sugi-Mugi men’... Mere washers of paint. Deck-hands on modern ships wash and chip paint, morning, noon and night. 1938W. E. Dexter Rope Yarns 82 In all the sailing ships I was in I never came across a long-handled holystone, or caustic soda, or ‘soogy-moogy’. 1939H. Hughes Through Mighty Seas ii. 36 All hands wallowed in soogie moogie. 1962A. G. Course Dict. Naut. Terms 182 Soogee moogee, a liquid used for cleaning paintwork and woodwork consisting of soda and water or soap and water.
b. A cleaning operation which involves the use of soogee-moogee.
1935Sea Breezes Jan. 60 The equipment, particularly the sails, would be so perfect that my crew wouldn't mind the ‘sooje-mooje’ such perfection entailed. 1945Time 31 Dec. 96/3 Soon Sailor Slobodkin..found himself loading cargo, eating slop and doing soogie moogie (scrubbing paint work) with a crew. |