Water boots

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!

They may well be but gumboots are wellies !

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

I could be wrong....

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.

Wellies. If it wisnae fur yer 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.

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

Wellies or wellieboots.

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

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

They were called gumboots back then, at home - but now wellies.

I've always said Wellies but my parents said Water Boots.
My parents were from Norfolk and I assumed it was a local thing.

It’s clearly an accepted term. Google it and you see you can buy them on Amazon!

Lucca thanks for sharing the Billy Connolly clip. Not heard that for years. I watched a recent interview just last night. He hasn’t lost his sense of humour despite the impact of Parkinson’s.

Wellies or Wellingtons. I have heard gumboots but never water boots.

Perhaps it's political. Ireland was possibly exploited by or hated the Duke of Wellington for some other reason so refused to use his name.

This would have been before Ireland was divided up of course, so the language would have been the same all over the island.

Welligogs in our house

The last time I had a sea paddle with my 2 youngest GC in March I felt one of my feet go very wet and icy cold as one of my wellies sprung a leak.

My little grandson was fascinated when I removed the wellies and left them in the beachside bin. There was already a very large pair of waist high fisherman waders hanging out of the bin.

Wellies here ..... gum boots is a very older fashioned term not heard any more
I ve never heard Wellies called water boots maybe it’s a Northern Ireland thing any other posters from NI ?

Wellies but gum boots when we were kids.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFIBVNhjs7E

Wellies/wellingtons/wellie boots here.

(Wish I could get extra long ones for two year old dgd, who loves leaping up and down in every puddle we come across on our very wet walks )

Muck boots here, but that's because it is the brand name of my wellies.

Yes, gum boots, a blast from the past.
Wellies here. Never heard of water boots

Wellies, which is what everyone here calls them.
I had to buy a new pair, as DGD and I used to spend a lot of time splahing in the sea before lockdown put paid to that.?

Another for wellie boots or wellies. Seem to remember, as a child DM said wellingtons.