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green-wellie Definition


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green-wellie
adj
    (Brit)
    1. colloq
      Belonging or referring to the British upper-class country-dwelling set.
      Example: the green-wellie brigade
Etymology: 1980s: so called because they are represented stereotypically as wearing a certain kind of heavy green wellingtons.



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