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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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squeegee

UK /ˈskwiːd͡ʒiː/ · US /ˈskwiˌd͡ʒi/ noun, verb

Forms squeegees squeegeeing squeegeed

  1. noun A tool for scraping consisting of a blade of rubber or some other material attached at a right angle to a handle.
  2. noun A long-handled tool with a blade used for cleaning and/or drying surfaces, or for levelling paths, roadways, etc.
  3. noun A short-handled tool with a blade for drying car windshields, windows, etc.
  4. noun (nautical) A long-handled tool with a blade used on ships for swabbing decks and spreading protective coatings.
  5. noun (historical) A street-cleaning machine consisting of a roller with blades pulled by a horse.
  6. noun (photography) A tool used to press film into a mount, remove excess moisture from a print, etc.; a squeezer.
  7. noun (printing) A tool with a roller or blade used to force ink through a stencil in silk-screen printing.
  8. noun (slang) A person who uses a squeegee (noun sense 1.2); specifically, one who makes an unsolicited attempt to clean the windshield of a car stopped at a traffic light and then requests payment; a squeegee bandit.
  9. verb (transitive) Sometimes followed by down, out, together, etc.: to press or spread (a substance) using a squeegee (noun sense); also, to use a squeegee on (something, such as a surface).
  10. verb (intransitive) To use a squeegee.

Synonyms

squilgee squeegee kid squeegee thug

Etymology

The noun is probably derived from squeege (“(informal, dated) to squeeze”, verb) (an intensified form of squeeze (verb)) + -ee (suffix attached to verbs to form nouns meaning persons or things that are the subjects of the verbs). 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 verb is derived from the noun.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun Same as Squilgee.
  2. noun A small India-rubber roller with a handle, used esp. in printing and photography as a squeegee.

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “squeegee”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details