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Definition of Soogee
1. Noun. (context: nautical slang dated) A type of strong cleaning product for wood and paint on board a boat. ¹
2. Verb. (context: nautical transitive) To clean with soogee. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soogee
1. to clean ships with a special cleaning agent [v SOOGEED, SOOGEEING, SOOGEES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soogee
Literary usage of Soogee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Historical Records of New South Wales by Frank Murcott Bladen (1892)
"Mr. Bowen will fully explain to your Excellency the impossibility 1"2 of procuring
any considerable quantity of Hour or soogee without 28 March, ..."
2. The Weekly Reporter by David Sutherland, India High Court (Calcutta, India), Great Britain Privy Council. Judicial Committee (1893)
"... that all the evidence shows that did so hold soogee and its appurtenances ;
1 that the expression of Mr. Pirón in the ssage so often quoted from his ..."
3. Parliamentary Debates: Senate and House of Representatives by Australia Parliament (1902)
"The Custom - house officers will not find any difficulty in determining what is
a potato, onion, soogee or gunny bag. No farmer would put potatoes in a corn ..."
4. The Men of the Merchant Service: Being the Polity of the Mercantile Marine by Frank Thomas Bullen (1900)
"... as I have shown, but it is absolutely true to say that no tramp second mate
can hope to keep his hands out of the paint-pot or the soogee- ..."
5. India's Cries to British Humanity: Relative to Infanticide, British by James Peggs (1832)
"After the vomiting ceases give warm rice water, and after that boiled sago or
soogee (flour). The patient should be kept on a dry place and warm." (Asi. ..."
6. India's Cries to British Humanity: Relative to Suttee, Infanticide, British by James Peggs (1830)
"After the vomiting ceases give warm rice water, and after that boiled sago or
soogee (flour). The patient should be kept on a dry place and warm." (Asi. ..."
7. The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany (1826)
"... sago, or soogee (flour). The patients ought to be kept on a dry place and warm."
CHINESE METAL TYPES. Some metal types of the Chinese character have ..."
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