Difference between revisions of "Blightblack"
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* '''bootblack''': (''slang'') Shoeshine boy | * '''bootblack''': (''slang'') Shoeshine boy | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:51, 1 June 2019
- bright black → an oxymoron → L/R split
- blight-black → as black as a potato infected with potato blight, which caused the repeated failure of the potato crop during the Great Famine
- nightblack
- bootblack: (slang) Shoeshine boy
- blightblack: the walls of city tenements blackened by soot
