Water boots

Wellies or wellygogs as children

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

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

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

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

that's interesting annodomini

Wellies! Never heard of water boots!!

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

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.

Lucca

They may well be but gumboots are wellies !

Ok. I've just introduced two new terms accidentally!
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Wellington boots or Wellies here.

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

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

Another Scot with wellies here!

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

Wellies here too although my Granddaughters call them "wellygogs"

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

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

Oops wellygogs - not wellgogs!

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

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

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

Wellies

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

Wellibobs in our house x

Wellibobs here for the C but wellies for the adults

Gumboots when I was a child, wellies now.