Wellies are tall rubber boots for mud and rain. A pair of wellies.
They are named after the Duke of Wellington, whose boot was leather rather than rubber. Wellies are the one item of British clothing nobody argues about.
1nounwelliesTall rubber boots for mud and rain.
“The wellies by the back door had two spiders and a hole.”
wellies is boots.
Also accepted in games: wellingtons
A clipping of Wellingtons, named after the first Duke of Wellington.
a clipping of Wellingtons.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Clothes & Fashion