英语词汇squeegee的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	squeegee
词源	squeegee n. "wooden scraping instrument with a rubber blade," 1844, a nautical word originally, earlier squilgee, squillagee (Dana, 1840), "a small swab made of untwisted yarns. Figuratively, a lazy mean fellow" [Smythe], perhaps from squeege "to press" (1782), an alteration of squeeze (v.). Later in photography, then window-washing. Entries linking to squeegee squeeze v. c. 1600, "press forcibly" (transitive), probably an alteration of quease (c. 1550), from Old English cwysan "to squeeze," of unknown origin, perhaps imitative (compare German quetschen "to squeeze"). Perhaps altered by influence of many words of similar sense in squ-. Intransitive sense from 1680s. Baseball squeeze play first recorded 1905. The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue has squeeze-crab "A sour-looking, shrivelled, diminutive fellow." updated on September 07, 2020
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