Brewer's: Larry Dugan's Eye-water

Blacking; so called from Larry Dugan, a noted shoeblack of Dublin, whose face was always smudged with his blacking.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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