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  1. Bossman

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    #1 Bossman, Sep 12, 2013
    But did anyone else call wellington boots wellybobs when they were young?
     
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    #2 Jay, Sep 12, 2013
    Still do.
     
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    #3 Extremely Northern, Sep 12, 2013
    Always have

    Always will.
     
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    #4 Googs, Sep 12, 2013
    Re: Always have

    Yep, me too. Probably always will. Either wellybobs or wellies.
     
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    #5 Plankton Pete, Sep 12, 2013
    Me too
     
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    #6 MrsHallsToffeerolls, Sep 12, 2013
    "If it wisnae fur yer wellies where would you be?" Billy Connolly.

    Wellies for me Boss.
     
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    #7 wilkojohnson, Sep 12, 2013
    Wellygogs anyone.............was it the Dearne Valley or my glue ear?
     
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    #8 Kev b, Sep 12, 2013
    my other half still calls it that
     
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    #9 Bossman, Sep 12, 2013
    I think we need the government to set up a national vote....wellies or wellybobs?
     
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    #10 Farnham_Red, Sep 12, 2013
    No I used to call them wellies ( and still do ) but lots of others used to call them wellybobs
     
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    #11 Marc, Sep 12, 2013
    wellybobs here. also refer to holidays as hollibobs. for info.
     
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    #12 Plankton Pete, Sep 12, 2013
    Interestingly and in a similar vein, I refer to those at S6 as a 'setternobs'
     
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    #13 MrsHallsToffeerolls, Sep 12, 2013
    I have heard mention of that around the borough.
     
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    #14 tingleytyke, Sep 12, 2013
    Anyone remember "bumper boots" ?
     
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    #15 Stahlrost, Sep 12, 2013
    I used to call them "willies" when very young. Can't remember when my parents "persuaded" me to use wellies instead.
     
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    #16 tunstallred, Sep 12, 2013
    wellygogs for me !
     
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    #17 MrsHallsToffeerolls, Sep 12, 2013
    Pedagogs they were called I think. Mi owd school teacher used to always be on at me for turning up to school wi wet stocking feet.
     
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    #18 RichK, Sep 12, 2013
    Wellybobs or wellies. Interchangeable in our house, we are quite cosmopolitan though.
     
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    #19 Dragon Tyke, Sep 12, 2013
    as I now live in Wales I call them a Sex Aid TBH

    But I called them both Wellibobs and Wellies.... with an occasional Welligogs too.
     
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