Other forms: squeegees
A squeegee is a rubber blade that wipes water off glass. Use a squeegee, a window squeegee, the squeegee left streaks.
The blade must be pulled in one continuous stroke and wiped between passes, which is the whole trick and why professionals leave no streaks. It is also the tool used in screen printing to push ink through the mesh.
1nounsqueegeeA rubber blade that wipes water off glass.
“The window cleaner soaped the shop window and then cleaned it with a squeegee.”
squeegee is a tool.
Probably from an old intensified form of squeeze, from the nineteenth-century nautical trade.
Built from
The is probably derived from squeege (“(informal, dated) to squeeze”) (an intensified form of squeeze) + -ee. 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 is derived from the noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA