bootblacking

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

bootblacking

  1. present participle and gerund of bootblack

Noun[edit]

bootblacking (uncountable)

  1. The practice of shining shoes; shoe-shining.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 7:
      A smell of scent soap and bootblacking[.]
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