soogeen.
/ˈsuːdʒiː/ = soogee-moogee n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning other miscellaneous things > [noun] > cleaning paintwork > substance for
soogee-moogee1882
strongers1927
sugar soap1930
soogee1944
1944 Time 10 Jan. 4/3 A bucket of ‘soujge’.
1945 Seafarers' Log 7 Sept. 4/4 The old soogee bucket and paint brush will be working plenty overtime.
1953 J. Masefield Conway (rev. ed.) ii. 124 The recipe for the liquid used to clean ‘holy ground’ was one handful of soft soap, one of ‘soojie’ (soap powder).
1963 M. Lowry Ultramarine (rev. ed.) iv. 198 Steamflies..are stealthily prowling over..the limp bags of caustic soda and soogie.
Derivatives
ˈsoogee v. transitive, to clean (wood and paintwork) with soogee-moogee n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning other miscellaneous things > clean other miscellaneous things [verb (transitive)] > clean paintwork
soogee1903
1903 A. Sonnichsen Deep Sea Vagabonds iii. 37 There was soodgee-moodgee. Soodgee is a sailor's horror; it means to wash paint-work with a strong solution of soda and water.
1947 Seafarers' Log 14 Mar. 5/2 The messhalls were sougeed out, the gallery cleaned.
1950 R. P. Bissell Stretch on River vii. 75 I was sooging down the walls in his [sc. the captain's] cabin.
ˈsooging n. (also soogieing)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning other miscellaneous things > [noun] > cleaning paintwork
soogee-moogee1935
sooging1945
1945 Seafarers' Log 29 June 12 Soogieing, chipping, painting, etc., shall not be considered an emergency.
1963 M. Lowry Ultramarine (rev. ed.) v. 217 I had to do a bit of soogeing in the petty officers' washhouse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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