释义 |
soogee|ˈsuːdʒiː| Also soogie, soujie, etc. = next.
1944Time 10 Jan. 4/3 A bucket of ‘soujge’. 1945Seafarers' Log 7 Sept. 4/4 The old soogee bucket and paint brush will be working plenty overtime. 1953J. 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). 1963M. Lowry Ultramarine iv. 198 Steamflies..are stealthily prowling over..the limp bags of caustic soda and soogie. So as v. trans., to clean (wood and paintwork) with soogee-moogee; soog(ie)ing vbl. n.
1903A. 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. 1945Seafarers' Log 29 June 12 Soogieing, chipping, painting, etc., shall not be considered an emergency. 1947Ibid. 14 Mar. 5/2 The messhalls were sougeed out, the gallery cleaned. 1950R. P. Bissell Stretch on River vii. 75, I was sooging down the walls in his [sc. the captain's] cabin. 1963M. Lowry Ultramarine v. 217, I had to do a bit of soogeing in the petty officers' washhouse. |