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green-welly en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (UK, colloquial) Of 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 Sitter:
    • 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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