different between galoche vs galosh

English

Noun

galoche (plural galoches)

1. Alternative spelling of galoshe

Anagrams

• lochage

Danish

Etymology

From French galoche (“clog, galosh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al?sj?/, [??a?l???]

Noun

galoche c (singular definite galochen, plural indefinite galocher)

1. galoche, galosh, galoshe

Inflection

Further reading

• “galoche” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.l??/

Etymology 1

Old French, from Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (solea) "Gallic (shoe)."

Noun

galoche f (plural galoches)

1. clog (shoe with a wooden sole)
2. a chin that is long and pointed
3. (slang) French kiss

Derived terms

• galocher
• rouler une galoche

Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

galoche

1. first-person singular present indicative of galocher
2. third-person singular present indicative of galocher
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of galocher
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of galocher
5. second-person singular imperative of galocher

Further reading

• “galoche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Italian

Etymology

From French galoche.

Noun

galoche f (invariable)

1. galosh

English

Etymology

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 ?????????? (kalopódion), diminutive of ???????? (kalópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of ????? (kâlon, “wood”) and ???? (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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l??/

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.

Synonyms

• (waterproof rubber boot): Wellington boot

Translations

See also

• rainboot
• overshoe
• galoshe, galoche

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.

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