bootblacking
English edit
Verb edit
bootblacking
- present participle and gerund of bootblack
Noun edit
bootblacking (uncountable)
- 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[.]