shoeblack

[ shoo-blak ]

/ ˈʃuˌblæk /

bootblack.

Origin of shoeblack

First recorded in 1745–55; shoe + black

He would not mind her marrying a shoeblack if only he could debase his own family.

Marion Fay |Anthony Trollope
If for any reason this does not happen, a larger brush can be cut from wood or cardboard and pasted over the shoeblack's hand.

Toy-Making in School and Home |Ruby Kathleen Polkinghorne and Mabel Irene Rutherford Polkinghorne
Do you resign the pen for the brush, to save your paying tribute to the shoeblack?

Economic Sophisms |Frederic Bastiat
Such an event as a shoeblack in South Audley Street was not to be passed by.

Ravenshoe |Henry Kingsley

Now fight to death for the boy that living you would not have hired as a shoeblack.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) |Thomas De Quincey

shoeblack

/ (ˈʃuːˌblæk) /

(esp formerly) a person who shines boots and shoes