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means Rubber rain boots, especially the knee-high kind worn for mud, puddles, and British weather in general.

from Short for 'Wellington boots,' named after the Duke of Wellington, who had his shoemaker modify the leather military boot into a sturdier, more practical style in the early 1800s. When rubber manufacturing took off later that century, makers applied the Wellington name to the new waterproof rubber version — and the duke's boot, already a byword for sturdy footwear, ended up immortalized in mud rather than on a battlefield.