2. Verb. (third-person singular of bootjack) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bootjacks
1. bootjack [n] - See also: bootjack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bootjacks
Literary usage of Bootjacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Digressions of V.: Written for His Own Fun and that of His Friends by Elihu Vedder (1910)
"Now would it not be just as logical to say that tight boots produce corns, that
bootjacks remove the boots which produce the corns, and that by making a ..."
2. Little Visits With Great Americans by Orison Swett Marden (1904)
"If you would rather draw crawfish and bootjacks than men and women, draw crawfish
and bootjacks. It really doesn't so much matter what you draw; ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"Well," said I to my informant, a bustling little fellow named bootjacks, ...
"Well, sir," replied bootjacks, with a quaint smile, we should conclude that he ..."
4. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"We have bootjacks and a bath-tub, now, and yet all the mysteries the pack- mules
carry are not revealed. What next! ..."
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