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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:squeegeeWikipedia

Etymology

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Probably from squeege, an intensified form of squeeze. Compare earlier squill-gee, squillgee.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA(key): /ˈskwiːd͡ʒiː/, /skwiːˈd͡ʒiː/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈskwiˌd͡ʒi/

• Audio (General American):

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• Rhymes: -iːdʒi

Noun

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squeegee (plural squeegees)

1. A tool consisting of a rubber or similar blade attached at a right angle to a handle, particularly
   1. (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, volume I, page 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.
   2. Similar long-handled tools used for drying or leveling surfaces such as paths and roadways. [1884]
   3. A short-handled tool, especially as used on car windshields and home windows. [1918]
2. A roller used to similar effect, particularly
   1. (photography) A tool used to remove excess moisture from a print. [1878]
   2. (historical) A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller made of squeegee blades pulled by a horse.
   3. (printing) A tool used to force the ink through the stencil in silk-screen printing.
3. (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]

Derived terms

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• squeegee band
• squeegee bandit
• squeegee kid
• squeegeelike
• squeegeeman
• squeegee merchant
• squeegee mop
• squeegee thug

Translations

[edit] tool used for cleaning glass

Afrikaans: raamwisser Arabic: مَسَّاحَة f (massāḥa) Armenian: քերոց (hy) (kʻerocʻ), գլանակ (hy) (glanak) Bulgarian: стъргалка за прозорци f (stǎrgalka za prozorci) Catalan: eixugavidres Chinese: Mandarin: 刮水刷 (guāshuǐshuā), 刮刀 (zh) (guādāo) Czech: stěrka f Danish: svaber (da) Dutch: trekker (nl), vloertrekker m (floor squeegee), raamwisser (window squeegee) Finnish: ikkunalasta, lasta (fi) French: raclette (fr) f German: Abzieher (de) m, Gummiabzieher m, Gummiwischer m Greek: ρακλέτα (el) f (rakléta) Hebrew: מַגֵּב (he) m (magév) Hungarian: ablaklehúzó, gumiélű ablaktörlő Icelandic: skafa Ido: kauchuka swabro Italian: lavavetri m, tergivetro m, seccatoio (it) m Japanese: スクイージー (sukuījī), スキージー (sukījī) Kazakh: ракель (rakel) Korean: 고무래 (gomurae) Kyrgyz: ракеля (ky) (rakelya) Maori: rautahi Norwegian: Bokmål: nal (no) m Nynorsk: nal m Persian: Iranian Persian: تِی (tey) Polish: odciągacz m, ściągaczka f Portuguese: rodo (pt) m Russian: ра́кель (ru) m (rákelʹ), рези́новая шва́бра f (rezínovaja švábra), скребо́к (ru) m (skrebók) (с рези́новой наса́дкой), водосго́н (ru) m (vodosgón) Spanish: secador (es) m, lampazo (es) m, haragán (es) m, jalador m Swedish: skrapa (sv) c, fönsterskrapa c (for cleaning glass) Tagalog: elastikong panlampaso Tajik: сеҳрнок (sehrnok) Turkish: çekçek (tr) Welsh: gwesgi m West Flemish: trekker

printing tool

Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Czech: těrka f, stěrka f, (informal) rakle Dutch: rakel (nl) Finnish: lasta (fi) German: Rakel (de) f Polish: rakiel m, rakla (pl) f

Verb

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squeegee (third-person singular simple present squeegees, present participle squeegeeing, simple past and past participle squeegeed)

1. (ambitransitive) To use a squeegee. [1883]
   • 1883, J.T. Taylor, Hardwich's Manual of Photographic Chemistry, 9th edition, page 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, page 104:The decks were persistently holystoned, scrubbed, ‘squeegéed’, and swabbed.

Usage notes

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Sometimes used with prepositions such as out, down, together, &c.

Translations

[edit] to use a squeegee

Bulgarian: стържа (bg) (stǎrža) Dutch: aftrekken (nl) Finnish: pyyhkiä lastalla Swedish: skrapa (sv) Welsh: gwesgïo

References

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• “squeegee, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915.
• “squeegee, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915.

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