galosh

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

• From Vulgar Latin *galopium, from Ancient Greek καλοπόδιον (kalopódion), diminutive of καλόπους (kalópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (poús, “foot”). More at holt and foot.[1]
• From Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of gallica (solea) (“Gallic (sandal)”).[2]
• From Old French galette (“flat round cake”), from galet (“pebble”).[3]

• IPA^(key): /ɡəˈlɒʃ/

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.

• (waterproof rubber boot): Wellington boot

• rainboot
• overshoe
• galoshe, galoche

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.