Meanings
adjective
alternative green-wellie
- UKcolloquialOf or relating to the green welly brigade.
This was green welly country. Lots of people kept horses, goats, chickens and dogs. The Royal Welsh Showground was an easy drive from here.
2019, Jill Barry, The House Sitter1 more example
Marcus is a man of the Right, a besuited man of business during his lucrative banker years, and, since 'retirement', a green-welly country gent as his landowner father had been.
2022, Richard Woolley, Detachment Theory
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