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shoeshine

[ shoo-shahyn ]
/ ˈʃuˌʃaɪn /
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noun

an act or instance of cleaning and polishing a pair of shoes.
the surface of a polished shoe or shoes.

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Nearby words

  1. shoeless,
  2. shoemaker,
  3. shoemaker-levy 9,
  4. shoepac,
  5. shoer,
  6. shoestring,
  7. shoestring catch,
  8. shoestring potatoes,
  9. shoestring root rot,
  10. shoestring tackle

Origin of shoeshine

shoe + shine1
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for shoe-shine

  • You with your pretty man suit and your hair and finger-nails polished like a shoe-shine.

    Just Around the Corner|Fannie Hurst

  • She has dressed in a red sweater and plied her trade, for a day, as a shoe-shine boy.

    An Ocean Tramp|William McFee

  • Of course one has to clean one's own boots, unless one is near a "Shoe-shine Parlour" in some large town.

    Across the Prairie in a Motor Caravan|Frances Halton Eva Hasell
British Dictionary definitions for shoe-shine

shoeshine

/ (ˈʃuːˌʃaɪn) /

noun

the act or an instance of polishing a pair of shoes
the appearance or shiny surface of polished shoes
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Word Origin and History for shoe-shine

shoe-shine

adj.

1911, from shoe (n.) + shine (n.). One who shines shoes for money was a shoeblacker (1755).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper