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Boots

A list of 85 words by hernesheir.

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Types of boots used as footwear, or in a few cases, to protect the feet and legs of horses.

"...waterleg and gumboots each for Bully Hayes and Hurricane Hartigan..." --Finnegans Wake

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  • ruzuzu Bilby--I have as many eunuchs as I have serving women. Jan 3, 2013

  • fbharjo cracowes!
    Jan 2, 2013

  • fbharjo gamashes Jan 2, 2013

  • fbharjo Melpomene - the muse of tragedy to boot! Jan 2, 2013

  • fbharjo Valenki? wear out & out; How felting! Jan 2, 2013

  • fbharjo goretex winkle-pickers? Jan 2, 2013

  • hernesheir 5345.4 bogomips is a nice round number. Jan 2, 2013

  • fbharjo How many bogomips does it have?? Are they ochreated? Jan 2, 2013

  • bilby I see ruzuzu hasn't fessed up about the number of eunuchs she has. Go on, how many? Jan 2, 2013

  • ruzuzu Ha. I did attend a wedding last week, but it certainly wasn't my own. And I wore spiffy little flats--not the boots which I'd purchased for myself.

    That's funny, though. Jan 2, 2013

  • hernesheir I'm imagining ruzuzu leaving the sporting goods store in her new gumboots.... and this line from The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night shoehorns it's way in: "...preceded by her eunuchs and serving women and clad in the gear her father had given her." (which see, in the examples given for in espalier.) Jan 2, 2013

  • bilby We also use the term gumboots in Australia. Jan 2, 2013

  • ruzuzu My favorite rain boots sprung leaks this year--so when my father came to town for the holidays, we went to a sporting goods store to look for what he was calling gumboots (a term I knew only from the title of an old Paul Simon song). When my father finally pointed some out for me, I said, "Oh, you mean shitkickers." Hilarious. Jan 2, 2013

  • bilby Ah well, sometimes you hope no-one notices! Jan 2, 2013

  • hernesheir Ah bilby, I see you added Puss-in. Sabotage! Jan 2, 2013