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Stevenloan
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by Stevenloan » Fri May 11, 2018 6:30 am
Hi everybody! What do you call this bathroom device? It's used to push water away to make the bathroom floor less wet.
Thanks a lot!
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by trolley » Fri May 11, 2018 9:21 pm
It's called a squeegee.
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by Bobinwales » Fri May 11, 2018 11:29 pm
From Wikipedia which is sometimes correct.
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The earliest quotations mentioning squeegees in the Oxford English Dictionary refer to their use in cleaning decks on board ship: in 1844 a "squee gee" in an American book, in 1851 a "leathern squilgee" in Moby-Dick, and in 1867 in a British book by Admiral William Henry Smyth. Additionally, Richard Henry Dana’s 1840 memoir Two Years Before the Mast mentions “squilgeeing” in Chapter XIV.
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by Stevenloan » Sun May 13, 2018 4:26 am
trolley and Bob: Thanks a lot for your help. I really appreciate it.
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by Wizard of Oz » Sun May 13, 2018 2:20 pm
Hi Steve. I see your thirst for English words has not died. I would add that
squeegees come in a lot of sizes. Some are for personal use and then those for industrial use. Some have a brush attached so that you can clean the surface and then wipe off the water. A controversial use is people who accost you when you stop in your car at traffic lights and offer to clean your windscreen. This is illegal in many places but it seems that they still do it.
Woz in Aus
I'll clean the floor with you.
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by Stevenloan » Tue May 15, 2018 3:41 pm
WoZ: Thanks very much for your input and the picture.
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