Pooje, n. 1. An embarrassing situation; a sense of guilt; a regrettable discovery. 2. One who is caught in the act.
Pooje, v. To make a painful discovery; unwittingly to create a scene.
Poojed, p.p. Disconcerted, mortified, aghast.
A pooje is a sudden desire to become invisible; as when, entertaining company, the neat housewife sees a cockroach crawl along the floor.
John was kissing Mary, when Eliza opened the door. It was a pooje. John and Mary were poojed good. But even this wasn’t as bad as when John tried to kiss Eliza. She poojed him. “Sir!” she said, “how dare you?”
Last night I dreamed that I was standing on the corner of Forty-second Street and Broadway at 10-45 P.M. just as the theatre crowd swept by. Yes, of course you know the sensation well—I was in my night-gown, with bare feet! Was I poojed? Rath-er! (See Agowilt.)
Also, you can get poojed merely by trying to step up a top stair which doesn’t happen to be there, or by being caught putting one cent in the contribution-plate.
Never listen at the keyhole when a man and his wife are quarreling inside; he may suddenly open the door and pooje you. (See Bimp.)
Said Parks to his stenographer,
“All ready? Well, take this!”
And then Parks gave the girl a hug,
And then gave her a kiss.
Just then the door was opened wide,
And his surprise was huge—
’Twas Parks’s wife; he nearly died,
For Parks was in a pooje!