squeegee
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
squeegee (plural squeegees)
- A tool consisting of a rubber or similar blade attached at a right angle to a handle, particularly
- (nautical) A long-handled tool used on ships for swabbing the decks and spreading protective coatings. [1844]
- 1844, Matilda Charlotte Fraser Houstoun, Texas & the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. I, p. 39:
- Holy-stoning the decks... is the worst description of nervous torture of which I ever heard, excepting perhaps, the infliction of the squee gee.
- 1844, Matilda Charlotte Fraser Houstoun, Texas & the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. I, p. 39:
- Similar long-handled tools used for drying or leveling surfaces such as paths and roadways. [1884]
- A short-handled tool, especially as used on car windshields and home windows. [1918]
- (nautical) A long-handled tool used on ships for swabbing the decks and spreading protective coatings. [1844]
- A roller used to similar effect, particularly
- (slang) A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment. [1991]
- French: raclette
- German: Abzieher
- Italian: lavavetri, tergivetro, seccatoio
- Portuguese: rodo
- Russian: ра́кель
- Spanish: secador
squeegee (squeegees, present participle squeegeeing; past and past participle squeegeed)
- (ambitransitive) To use a squeegee. [1883]
- 1883, J.T. Taylor, Hardwich's Manual of Photographic Chemistry, 9th ed., p. 347:
- It is then ‘squeegeed’ down on the glass and developed.
- 1885, Charles George Warnford Lock, Workshop Receipts, 4th Ser., p. 411:
- ...a piece of American cloth to protect the print while squeegeeing...
- 1886 September 4, All Year Round, p. 104:
- The decks were persistently holystoned, scrubbed, ‘squeegéed’, and swabbed.
- 1883, J.T. Taylor, Hardwich's Manual of Photographic Chemistry, 9th ed., p. 347:
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