Meaning

4 senses
  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, countable, uncountable)A type of boot made of rubber.

    рези́новый сапо́гrezínovyj sapóg

  2. (South Africa, uncountable)A style of popular music traditionally associated with gold miners.

  3. (New Zealand, countable, uncountable)Generic black tea.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A chiton (kind of marine mollusc).

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Arriving at a Canadian airport, the South Africans broke into enthusiastic singing, all whilst stomping the floor in gumboots.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
boot made of rubber:

Origin

From gum + boot.

From gum + boot.

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Forms

plural: gumboots

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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