Difference between revisions of "Blightblack"
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Revision as of 21:20, 6 November 2007
- 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
