different between squeegee vs brooming

English

Etymology

Probably from squeege, an intensified form of squeeze. Compare earlier squill-gee, squillgee.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skwi?d?i?/, /skwi??d?i?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?skwi?d?i/

• Rhymes: -i?d?i

Noun

squeegee (plural squeegees)

1. A tool consisting of a rubber or similar blade attached at a right angle to a handle, particularly
   1. (nautical) A long-handled tool used on ships for swabbing the decks and spreading protective coatings. [1844]
      • 1844, Matilda Charlotte Fraser Houstoun, Texas & the Gulf of Mexico, Vol. I, p. 39:

        Holy-stoning the decks... is the worst description of nervous torture of which I ever heard, excepting perhaps, the infliction of the squee gee.

   2. Similar long-handled tools used for drying or leveling surfaces such as paths and roadways. [1884]
   3. A short-handled tool, especially as used on car windshields and home windows. [1918]
2. A roller used to similar effect, particularly
   1. (photography) A tool used to remove excess moisture from a print. [1878]
   2. (historical) A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller made of squeegee blades pulled by a horse.
   3. (printing) A tool used to force the ink through the stencil in silk-screen printing.
3. (slang) A person who uses a squeegee, especially one who "cleans" the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then demands payment. [1991]

Derived terms

• squeegee band
• squeegee bandit
• squeegee kid
• squeegeelike
• squeegeeman
• squeegee merchant
• squeegee mop
• squeegee thug

Translations

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To use a squeegee. [1883]
   • 1883, J.T. Taylor, Hardwich's Manual of Photographic Chemistry, 9th ed., p. 347:

     It is then ‘squeegeed’ down on the glass and developed.

   • 1885, Charles George Warnford Lock, Workshop Receipts, 4th Ser., p. 411:

     ...a piece of American cloth to protect the print while squeegeeing...

   • 1886 September 4, All Year Round, p. 104:

     The decks were persistently holystoned, scrubbed, ‘squeegéed’, and swabbed.

Usage notes

Sometimes used with prepositions such as out, down, together, &c.

Translations

References

• “squeegee, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915
• “squeegee, v.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1915

English

Verb

brooming

1. present participle of broom

Noun

brooming (plural broomings)

1. A sweeping with a broom.
   • 1992, David H. Jacobs, Concrete: a homeowner's illustrated guide (page 163)

     Each pass will actually receive two broomings. Because of the span, your broom head operates at an angle as opposed to a flat plane in which brooms are normally operated for sweeping.

   • 1998, Dion Fortune, The Winged Bull

     Then he went out into the spring sunshine to escape from her broomings and brushings, and there Brangwyn presently joined him, and they strolled together up the steep couloir, in the mouth of which the cottage stood.