squeegee

English

the head of a squeegee

Etymology

Possibly from squeege, an intensified variant of squeeze. Compare the earlier squill-gee, squillgee.

Pronunciation

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  Rhymes: -iːdʒi

• IPA: /ˈskwiːdʒiː/

Noun

squeegee (plural squeegees)

1. A tool consisting of a rubber blade at right angles to a handle, used for spreading, pushing or wiping liquid material on, across or off a surface, especially when cleaning glass, eg the windscreen of a vehicle or a shop window, to remove soapy water.
2. (slang) A person who cleans the windscreen of a vehicle stopped in traffic then demands payment from the driver.
3. (printing) A tool used in silk-screen printing for forcing the ink through the stencil and thus printing the desired image.

Translations

tool used for cleaning glass

• Afrikaans: raamwisser (af)
• Czech: stěrka (cs) f
• Danish: svaber (da)
• Dutch: ruitenwisser (nl)
• Finnish: ikkunalasta (fi), lasta (fi)
• French: raclette (fr)
• Hebrew: מגב (he)
• Hungarian: ablaklehúzó (hu)

• Italian: lavavetri (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nal (nb) m

  Nynorsk: nal (nn)

• Portuguese: rodo (pt)
• Spanish: secador (es)
• Tagalog: elastikong panlampaso (tl)

printing tool

• Czech: těrka (cs), stěrka (cs) f, (informal) rakle (cs)
• Dutch: rakel (nl)

• Finnish: lasta (fi)

See also

• Squeegee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To clean with a squeegee.

Translations

to clean with squeegee

• Finnish: pyyhkiä lastalla (fi)

See also

• squeegee merchant