galosh

From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (“shoe with a wooden sole”), but further history is uncertain.

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈlɒʃ/

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galosh (plural galoshes)

1. An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather:
   1. (British) 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.
2. A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.

• galoche, galoshe

• (waterproof rubber boot): Wellington boot

• rainboot
• overshoe
• galoshe, galoche
• gumshoe

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.