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GrannyZ Tue 17-Nov-20 07:25:39

My dd and I have had numerous discussion on the the Subject of boots for jumping in water I call them water boots and she calls them Wellies she said I have made up the word water boots as nobody else calls them that so I was just wondering what you all would have called the I live in Northern Ireland and I my mum definitely called the water boots ?☔️

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NotSpaghetti Tue 17-Nov-20 17:50:41

Lucca

They may well be but gumboots are wellies !

Ok. I've just introduced two new terms accidentally!
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annodomini Tue 17-Nov-20 18:27:35

On New Zealand's North Island, I visited the Gumdiggers' Park tourist attraction, where a workforce used to excavate the gum extruded from the ancient buried Kauri forest. The gum is very similar to amber and is used in jewellery. Among the exhibits we say were long rubber boots worn by the diggers: gum boots! I don't know if this is the origin of the name sometimes given to wellies, but it seems possible.

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Farmor15 Tue 17-Nov-20 18:52:55

Water boots might be a Northern Irish term, but not in other parts of Ireland. Wellingtons when I was growing up, wellies nowadays.

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PaperMonster Tue 17-Nov-20 19:01:39

Wellies! Never heard of water boots!!

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LauraNorder Tue 17-Nov-20 19:17:55

that's interesting annodomini

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Farmor15 Tue 17-Nov-20 19:19:57

There are some interesting local names for things - in Cork (Ireland) Rubber Dollies are gym shoes, runners, trainers or whatever you call them!

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Georgesgran Tue 17-Nov-20 19:21:06

Wellyboots in my house. My late DF wore galoshes - water proof coverings for shoes.

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Oldbat1 Tue 17-Nov-20 19:41:19

I’m Scottish and definitely Wellies. Having said that when I was really Wee I called them “bogats” why? I know not.

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agnurse Tue 17-Nov-20 20:05:28

Around here they're called rubber boots or gum boots.

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Tweedle24 Tue 17-Nov-20 20:17:12

Wellies or wellygogs as children

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