bootblacking

English

Verb

bootblacking

  1. present participle of bootblack

Noun

bootblacking (uncountable)

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