Water boots

MamaCaz, you need kids'waders. I got some for my grandson when he lived here (right by the river and sometimes floods) from the local anglers' shop - but here they are online:

www.waterproofworld.co.uk/waders/kidswaders.htm

I grew up calling them gumboots - presumably a reference to the material they were made from. I usually call them wellies these days.

Wellies or wellieboots.

We called the gum boots in Scotland. Only children with an English parent talked of Wellington boots or wellies.

I am Scottish and I have never heard anyone calling them, gumboots. I always thought it was an English expression.
Any children I taught called them wellies and very few had an English parent.

Wellies. If it wisnae fur yer wellies

Hetty58

MamaCaz, you need kids'waders. I got some for my grandson when he lived here (right by the river and sometimes floods) from the local anglers' shop - but here they are online:

www.waterproofworld.co.uk/waders/kidswaders.htm

Thank you for the suggestion.
At the moment, I put her in a spash suit (then a coat over the top), but waders look like they would do a much better job of keeping her dry.

I thought "gumshoes" were actually galoshes rather than (what I call) Wellies.

I could be wrong....

They may well be but gumboots are wellies !

They were called gumboots when I was growing up, and then wellies when my children came along and are still wellies. We lived in Northern Ireland for two years GrannyZ and it rained so much I thought we would all have webbed feet! My children lived in wellies!! Beautiful country though!

Gumboots when I was a child, wellies now.

Wellibobs here for the C but wellies for the adults

Wellibobs in our house x

Wellies

Although I had heard the term gum boots many years ago.

Ps or, of course Wellington boots named after the 1st Duke of Wellington.
The first ones weren't made of rubber, of course.

Water boots in my part of Essex, also called Wellies.
Never known as gum boots.

Wellies at home but at school we used to call them wellgogs

Oops wellygogs - not wellgogs!

I'm Scottish with Scottish parents and we wore wellies!

Definitely not a Norfolk Suffolk thing Emmasnan never heard that expression round this area

Wellies here too although my Granddaughters call them "wellygogs"

Thinking about the Village Fetes, would you call it "water boot wanging ".............err No!

Another Scot with wellies here!

Think it must be a Northern Ireland thing Eamon Homes calls the water boots

Wellington boots or Wellies here.

Never heard them called water boots. Perhaps its a regional term.