galosh

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡəˈlɒʃ/

Noun

galosh (plural galoshes)

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.

Synonyms

• (waterproof rubber boot) Wellington boot

Translations

• French: (Quebec) claque, galoche
• German: Galosche, Überschuh, Gamasche
• Italian: galoscia
• Portuguese: galocha
• Russian: гало́ша
• Spanish: bota para la lluvia, bota de lluvia, bota de goma, zueco, chanclo

Verb

galosh (galoshes, present participle galoshing; 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.

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