Definitions
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- n. Plural form of gumboot.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Giving the workers knee-high rubber boots, known as gumboots, proved a cheap alternative for the white mine owners than draining the water.
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The "gumboots" were also boiled, and found to be as rubbery as the name implied.
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Her sister could not eat the tough "gumboots" and her only nourishment was obtained from bread and black coffee.
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"gumboots," making a desultory search for pay-sand, which no one had seen for weeks.
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But he responded to the idea of a walk in the water meadows—a favourite walk of his, though he made a face when I put my gumboots on before starting.
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Did we see a BBC reporter up to their gumboots in a snowdrift.
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Deinacrida rugosa are gentle giants - herbivores far less ferocious than the smaller tree weta we find in our garages, gardens and gumboots!
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She follows in the gumboots of Eleanor Roosevelt who dug for victory during World War Two.
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Amanda would ride with everybody else and I would follow on foot, in a sopping-wet parka and gumboots, counting the minutes until we could go inside the big old manor house and have tea and chocolate digestives by the fire.
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I'm picturing the entire party wearing wedding finery and gumboots, mud up to their knees, and brandishing paddles while dancing a pagan dance.
bilby commented on the word gumboots
A pair of large, waterproof (usually rubberised) boots.
March 31, 2008