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English
Etymology
shoe + shiner
Noun
shoeshiner (plural shoeshiners)
- A person who shines shoes and other footwear, usually for a fee.
- Synonyms: bootblack, shoeblack, shoeshine boy
2012, E. Bueno, Amácio Mazzaropi in the Film and Culture of Brazil:Finally, with the help of a group of shoeshiners, everything is clarified, the police arrest the criminals; Arlindo is set free.
Translations
person who shines shoes
- Bulgarian: ваксаджия (vaksadžija)
- Catalan: enllustrador de sabates m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 擦鞋工 (cāxiégōng)
- Danish: skopudser (da) c
- Finnish: kengänkiillottaja (fi)
- French: cireur de chaussures m, cireuse de chaussures f, cireur de bottes m, cireuse de bottes f, cireur (fr) m, cireuse (fr) f
- German: Schuhputzer (de) m, Schuhputzerin (de) f
- Greek: λούστρος (el) m (loústros)
- Italian: lustrascarpe (it) m
- Japanese: 靴磨き (くつみがき, kutsumigaki)
- Polish: pucybut (pl) m, czyścibut (pl) m
- Portuguese: engraxate (pt) m or f
- Romanian: lustragiu (ro) m, văcsuitor (ro) m, văcsuitoare f
- Russian: чи́стильщик сапо́г m (čístilʹščik sapóg), чи́стильщик о́буви m (čístilʹščik óbuvi)
- Spanish: lustrabotas
- Swedish: skoputsare (sv) c
- Tagalog: limpyabota
- Turkish: ayakakbı boyacısı, lostracı (tr)
- Ukrainian: чисти́льник взуття (čystýlʹnyk vzuttja)
- Volapük: (♂♀) jukilekluinan, (♂) jukihilekluinan, (♀) jukijilekluinan
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