blucher

• “Asked to explain the gag, he says it's an urban legend - that "blucher" means "glue" in German.”

  ajc.com - News

• “The woman's shoe and heel resemble a blucher-style oxford seen in a pre-takeoff photo of Earhart.”

  USA Today: Lab scans bones that may belong to Amelia Earhart

• “Then again, I still find the running “blucher!” gag in Young Frankenstein hysterical.”

  Hullabaloo

• ““How the deuce should I know? or what do I care?” cries the young artist, stamping the heel of his blucher on the pavement.”

  The Newcomes

• “Other substitutions included “embrace” for “tackle,” “blucher” for “slush buster,”* “muggings” for “hog wash,” “fearful” for “rough,” “wickedest” for “vilest,” “leer” for “slobber,” “jolly” for “bully,” and “swindle” for “humbug.””

  Simon & Schuster: Mark Twain

• “I was wearing the clothes of a ship's boy, canvas trousers, thick blucher shoes, a rough check shirt, and a straw hat.”

  Jim Davis

• “The little crowd outside the hut: selectors in washed and mended tweeds, some with paper collars, some wearing starched and ironed white coats, and in blucher boots, greased or blackened, or the young men wearing”

  Children of the Bush

• “A heavy pair of blucher boots, with uppers parched and cracked, and soles so patched (patch over patch) with leather, boot protectors, hoop iron and hobnails that they were about two inches thick, and the boots weighed over five pounds.”

  Children of the Bush

• “He wore a "soft" cotton shirt with collar attached, and blucher boots.”

  Children of the Bush

• “Their dresses were red shirts, thick duck trousers, broad-brimmed hats, blucher boots, and leggings, with a strap round the waist to hold the axe and pouch containing matches, knife, and other small articles.”

  The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers

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