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green-welly

green-welly adjective: of or relating to the green welly brigade.

Adjective

green-welly

  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

Forms of green-welly

alternative formgreen-wellie

Questions about green-welly

What does green-welly mean?
Green-welly means of or relating to the green welly brigade.
What part of speech is green-welly?
Green-welly is an adjective.

Words near green-welly in the dictionary

  1. green-violet
  2. green-violets
  3. green-water navies
  4. green-water navy
  5. green-wellie
  6. green-welly
  7. green-white-checker
  8. green-white-checkered
  9. green-white-chequer
  10. green-white-chequered
  11. green-wing

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