What is the wellington boots term?
I cannot find anywhere if wellington boots is strictly British term or Americans also use it. Are they called “rubber boots”, “wellington boots” or both in American English?
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Let us show a narrow case where google NGrams really shows the difference in frequency well: From Google NGrams Dec
2016 The graph shows that the term wellington boots, which is very specific, is roughly 10 times the frequency in UK books as US books.
What alternatives are there available in the US for boots that have been made waterproof, there are other more common
- terms: rubber boots or water
boots These seem to be the closest to wellington boots or, more colloquially, ‘wellies’. (also known as ‘Water boots’).
- Duck boots (for a very particular construction kind of boot)
Duck boots are constructed distinctly differently from regular/normal/canonical boots, having a rubber sole and toe/top of foot/heel covering, but with a separate leather ankle lower calf covering.
These (the footwear as well as the term) are common in the US.
