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单词 squilgee
释义

squilgeen.

/ˈskwɪldʒiː//skwɪlˈdʒiː/
Forms: Also squillage, squiligee.
Etymology: Of obscure origin.
Nautical.
(See quots. 1867 1875 and cf. squeegee n. 1.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > wiping > [noun] > mopping or swabbing > mop or swab
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1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xciv. 466 Edgewise moved along the oily deck, it operates like a leathern squilgee.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 648 Squilgee, or Squillage, a small swab made of untwisted yarns. Figuratively, a lazy mean fellow.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2295/2 Squilgee, an instrument like a hoe, covered with leather, to rub the decks after washing.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. II. xvi. 68 Swabs and squiligees had been flung down.

Derivatives

squilgee v. to use a squilgee; to swab, clean, press, etc., with a squilgee; also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > clean by scraping [verb (transitive)] > scrape with squeegee
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1905 J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide vii. 147 That doctor squilgeein' my maintop with his physic stuff has made me feel A1 again.
squilgeeing n.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > scraper > [noun] > scraping with squeegee
squilgeeing1840
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 110 The washing, swabbing, squilgeeing, &c., etc. lasts..until eight o'clock.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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