Crossword-Solution: BLACKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Blacking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Black |
| Blacking | n. | Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves. |
| Blacking | n. | The act or process of making black. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “BLACKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| LIQUID for polishing boots etc. | 1 answer |
| PASTE for polishing boots etc. | 1 answer |
| burnt cork | 1 answer |
| preparation for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc | 1 answer |
| BEING blacked out | 3 answers |
| lamp black | 4 answers |
| black pigment | 18 answers |
| Ink | 18 answers |
| pigment | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BLACKING (5)
Marie, when she was alone or when she sat sewing in the evening, often thought about what it must be like down there where Emil was; where there were flowers and street bands everywhere, and carriages rattling up and down, and where there was a little blind boot-black in front of the cathedral who could play any tune you asked for by dropping the lids of blacking-boxes on the stone steps.
Yesterday he brought me some shoe-strings and a jar of cold cream (I sunburned all the skin off my nose before I got my new hat) and a blue Windsor tie and a bottle of blacking all for ten cents.
Just as I wouldn’t mind blacking her boots if she wanted me to.” But Clara refused to answer this sally of his.
Towards the end of that time my little brother Paul came down--and the best of companions he is! He shares the discomforts of my little menage in the cheeriest spirit, takes me out of my blacker humours, goes long walks with me, is interested in all that interests me (I always talk to him exactly as if he were of my own age), and is quite ready to turn his hand to anything, from boot-blacking to medicine-carrying.
The little rascal had the lid of a blacking-box, filled with salt, upon his knee, and was privately seasoning his onions and radishes.
Quotes with BLACKING (3)
Two days after his twelfth birthday, a fortnight before his father was jailed for debt, Charles Dickens was sent to work in a blacking factory. There, in a rat-infested room by the docks, he sat for twelve hours a day, labelling boot polish and learning the pain of abandonment. While he never spoke publicly of this ordeal, it would always be with him: in his social conscience and burning ambition, in the hordes of innocent children who languished and died in his fiction. Pete…
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.
Two other highly vocal FMSF Advisory Board members are Dr Elizabeth Loftus and Professor Richard Ofshe. Loftus is a respected academic psychologist whose much quoted laboratory experiment of successfully implanting a fictitious childhood memory of being lost in a shopping mall is frequently used to defend the false memory syndrome argument. In the experiment, older family members persuaded younger ones of the (supposedly) never real event. However, Loftus herself says that be…