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gum boot

gum boot is the alternative spelling of gumboot.

Meaning of gumboot

Noun

gumboot (countable and uncountable, plural gumboots)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) A type of boot made of rubber.
  2. (South Africa, uncountable) A style of popular music traditionally associated with gold miners.
  3. (New Zealand) Generic black tea.
  4. A chiton (kind of marine mollusc).

Forms of gum boot

pluralgum boots

Questions about gum boot

What is gum boot the alternative spelling of?
Gum boot is the alternative spelling of gumboot.

Words near gum boot in the dictionary

  1. gum acacia
  2. gum acacias
  3. gum ammoniac
  4. gum arabic
  5. gum Benjamin
  6. gum boot
  7. gum boots
  8. gum butea
  9. gum cistus
  10. gum cistuses
  11. gum coolibah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gum boot (page history and authors); gumboot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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