squeegee
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squeegee
- /ˈskwiːd͡ʒiː/ UK
- /skwiːˈd͡ʒiː/ UK
- /ˈskwiˌd͡ʒi/ US
Rhymes with -iːdʒi, (one pronunciation) -iː
Where it comes from
The noun is probably derived from squeege (“(informal, dated) to squeeze”, verb) (an intensified form of squeeze (verb)) + -ee (suffix attached to verbs to form nouns meaning persons or things that are the subjects of the verbs). Compare earlier squilgee, squillgee (“tool in the form of a mop or swab, or a blade with a long handle, used for cleaning and/or drying a vessel’s deck”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
noun squeegees
- A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle. This machine, […] consists of a timber cylinder revolving on an axle, […] The cylinder is armed externally with diagonally-fixed scrapers, squeegees, or brushes.
- A long-handled tool with a blade used for cleaning and/or drying surfaces, or for levelling paths, roadways, etc. [F]our men were employed in playing the jets, two in moving the hose from place to place, and four with brooms in sweeping the surfaces of the asphalte and keeping the channels free from straw and larger refuse; they also used squeegees to dry the surface of the asphalte, it being thought desirable
- A short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc. For roughly the same cost as two bottles of bathroom cleaner, it is now possible to buy a small squeegee and a microfibre cloth. If you can, buy a squeegee that also has a sucker attachment to enable it to be stuck somewhere convenient and always at hand the moment you emerge gleaming from your ablu
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A long-handled tool with a blade used on ships for swabbing decks and spreading protective coatings.
As for holy-stoning the decks [of the yacht], I set my face against that from the first; it is the worst description of nervous torture of which I ever heard, excepting perhaps, the infliction of the squee gee, which, as its name almost implies, sets every tooth in one's head on edge for a week.
Similar: squilgee
- A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller with blades pulled by a horse. Experiments during the previous year in street washing by squeegee and flushing machines proved so successful that this method has been permanently adopted and the work will be extended as funds are available. The squeegee machines are operated in batteries of one sprinkler and three squeegees, the
- A tool used to press film into a mount, remove excess moisture from a print, etc.; a squeezer. The transfer of the image from paper on to the glass is very easy. The paper is immersed in water, and placed in contact with a glass plate. The superfluous moisture being removed by a squeegee, the paper may then be stripped off, leaving the gelatine on the glass.
- A tool with a roller or blade used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing.
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A person who uses a squeegee (noun sense 1.2); specifically, one who makes an unsolicited attempt to clean the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then requests payment; a squeegee bandit.
Similar: squeegee kid, squeegee thug
verb squeegees · squeegeeing · squeegeed
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Sometimes followed by down, out, together, etc.: to press or spread (a substance) using a squeegee (noun sense); also, to use a squeegee on (something, such as a surface).
Transparencies on glass, for use in the Stereoscope, the magic lantern, or for window decoration, may very easily be made by the Carbon process. […] The Carbon tissue, previously cut to the dimensions of the glass, is printed as previously directed, with a very narrow safe-edge: it is then "squeegee
Similar: squilgee
- To use a squeegee. Having regulated the temperature, the following articles will be required:– […] a rubber squeegee, and a piece of American cloth to protect the print while squeegeeing; […]
Translations
Every language
noun tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber, etc., attached at a right angle to a handle
| Français | raclette |
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noun short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.
| Español | secador, lampazo, haragán, jalador |
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| 한국어 | 고무래 gomurae |
| 日本語 | スクイージー sukuījī, スキージー sukījī |
| 中文 | 刮刀刮水刷 guādāo |
| Português | rodo |
| Français | raclette |
| Deutsch | Abzieher, Gummiabzieher, Gummiwischer |
| Italiano | lavavetri, tergivetro, seccatoio |
| Ελληνικά | ρακλέτα rakléta |
| Русский | ра́кель rákelʹ, рези́новая шва́бра rezínovaja švábra, скребо́к skrebók, водосго́н vodosgón |
| العربية | مَسَّاحَة massāḥa |
| עברית | מַגֵּב magév |
noun tool used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing
| Deutsch | Rakel |
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verb (transitive) to press or spread (a substance) using a squeegee; to use a squeegee on (something); (intransitive) to use a squeegee
| Français | racler |
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