galosh

English

Etymology

From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (shoe with a wooden sole), but further uncertain; three main theories exist:

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡəˈlɒʃ/

Noun

galosh (plural galoshes)

  1. (Britain) A waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow.
  2. (US) A waterproof rubber boot, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions.

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Verb

galosh (third-person singular simple present galoshes, present participle galoshing, simple past and past participle galoshed)

  1. (intransitive) To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about.
    • 1979, Penelope Mortimer, About Time: An Aspect of Autobiography (page 36)
      My mother, at the age of seventeen, took them on single-handed, galoshing her way through the mud with bundles of tracts, not necessarily religious but always uplifting, and generous supplies of calves' foot jelly.

References

  1. Barnhart, Robert K., ed., Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, H.W. Wilson Co., 1988.
  2. Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.
  3. Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, 2002.
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