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Boots

A list of 86 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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  • hernesheir commented on the list boots--1

    Ah bilby, I see you added Puss-in. Sabotage!

    January 2, 2013

  • bilby commented on the list boots--1

    Ah well, sometimes you hope no-one notices!

    January 2, 2013

  • ruzuzu commented on the list boots--1

    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.

    January 2, 2013

  • bilby commented on the list boots--1

    We also use the term gumboots in Australia.

    January 2, 2013

  • hernesheir commented on the list boots--1

    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.)

    January 2, 2013

  • ruzuzu commented on the list boots--1

    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.

    January 2, 2013

  • bilby commented on the list boots--1

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

    January 2, 2013

  • fbharjo commented on the list boots--1

    How many bogomips does it have?? Are they ochreated?

    January 3, 2013

  • hernesheir commented on the list boots--1

    5345.4 bogomips is a nice round number.

    January 3, 2013

  • fbharjo commented on the list boots--1

    goretex winkle-pickers?

    January 3, 2013

  • fbharjo commented on the list boots--1

    Valenki? wear out & out; How felting!

    January 3, 2013

  • fbharjo commented on the list boots--1

    Melpomene - the muse of tragedy to boot!

    January 3, 2013

  • fbharjo commented on the list boots--1

    gamashes

    January 3, 2013

  • fbharjo commented on the list boots--1

    cracowes!

    January 3, 2013

  • ruzuzu commented on the list boots--1

    Bilby--I have as many eunuchs as I have serving women.

    January 3, 2013