galosh
nounEtymology
From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (“shoe with a wooden sole”), but further history is uncertain. further theories * From Vulgar Latin *galopium or Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion), diminutive of κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”). (More at holt and foot.) * From Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (solea) (“Gallic (sandal)”). * From Old French galette (“flat round cake”), from galet (“pebble”).
Definitions
An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather
An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather:
A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.
To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes
To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about.
- 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.
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA