Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who cleans and polishes shoes and boots, especially one who makes a living by this.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who polishes shoes; same as
bootblack .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
polishes shoes as anoccupation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
- noun a person who polishes shoes and boots
Etymologies
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Examples
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"Yes -- he's a--" I was going to say "shoeblack," but I stopped myself in time, and said, "a little boy."
My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872
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There is a boy, perhaps fifteen, pushing a wheelbarrow of small items that are for sale: a single roll of toilet paper, a neat metal disk containing shoeblack, and other soft clear plastic wrappers around fist-sized packages of nuts.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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There is a boy, perhaps fifteen, pushing a wheelbarrow of small items that are for sale: a single roll of toilet paper, a neat metal disk containing shoeblack, and other soft clear plastic wrappers around fist-sized packages of nuts.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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Oh, to miss the sight of her because I was wet through and bedraggled, and had not so much as five sous to give to a shoeblack for removing the least little spot of mud from my boot!
The Magic Skin 2007
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There were pictures of a pauper cabin in Ireland, from which it was pretended I came; others in which I was represented as a lacquey and shoeblack.
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Louis could imagine hurling the shoes out the window, but instead, he cleaned them each in turn, smearing a rag in shoeblack and buffing them to a shine.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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A moment before he had been cursing and swearing at me, and speaking to me as if I had been his shoeblack.
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Louis could imagine hurling the shoes out the window, but instead, he cleaned them each in turn, smearing a rag in shoeblack and buffing them to a shine.
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre Dominic Smith 2006
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Who would have thought such a nobleman vood turn shoeblack?
The Fatal Boots 2006
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He goes to picture-galleries, and is more ignorant about Art than a French shoeblack.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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