Wellington boot
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- noun
- /ˈwɛlɪŋtən buːt/
- UK
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bota de Wellington
- She put on her Wellington boots before stepping into the muddy field.
I'll tread as gracefully as I can also in my Wellington boots, I, in my galoshes, I here's, here's the thing.
- I'll tread as gracefully as I can also in my Wellington boots, I, in my galoshes, I here's, here's the thing.
- Tiny little ankle ankle Wellington boots, I guess with see through glitter bows on the front made of plastic.
Examples
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- You got your Wellington boots on, Major?
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Look at them Wellington boots.
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If you live in far more rural lands, then you might like to invest in some Wellington boots.
Blog text (17) -
He was wearing Wellington boots.
Fiction book (2002) -
Because of the wet terrain, they wear drab green rubber Wellington boots on these forays.
Academic text (1991) -
After the heavy rain, everyone needed their Wellington boots to walk through the puddles.
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Farmers often wear Wellington boots when working in wet or muddy conditions.
Synonyms
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A waterproof rubber shoe worn to keep feet and lower legs dry when walking in water or mud
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A rubber boot worn to keep your feet dry in rain or mud
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Morphology
A learner who knows 'Wellington' (a person's name) and 'boot' can infer that this refers to a type or style of boot named after Wellington, so the coarse meaning 'a kind of boot' is derivable. However, specific features (knee-length, waterproof, rubber/leather) are not predictable from the constituents alone, so the relation is only partially compositional.
Etymology
Wellington boot is named after the Duke of Wellington, who asked for a simple knee-high leather boot to wear in wet, muddy fields, and people began to call that new style a 'Wellington'. When rubber versions were made later, the name stayed, so today Wellington boots mean knee-length waterproof boots for wet and muddy conditions.