different between galosh vs galoshe

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.

References

English

Alternative forms

• galoche, galosh

Etymology

From Middle English galoche, galache, galage (“shoe”), from Old French galoche, perhaps altered from Latin gallica (meaning a Gallic shoe),or from Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from an Ancient Greek diminutive of ???????? (kalópous, “a shoemaker's last; wood + foot”).

Noun

galoshe (plural galoshes)

1. (obsolete) A clog or patten.
2. Hence, an overshoe worn in wet weather.
3. A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.

Translations

References

• galoshe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.