limpiabotas

Spanish

Etymology

Verb-object compound, composed of limpia (“to clean”) +‎ botas (“boots”).

Noun

limpiabotas m (plural limpiabotas)

1. work that consists in washing shoes and boots

Further reading

• “limpiabotas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014