different between overshoe vs galoshe

English

Etymology

From over- +? shoe.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?v????u?/

Noun

overshoe (plural overshoes)

1. A shoe worn over an ordinary shoe, either to protect from water or mud, or to prevent damage to a floor. [from 18th c.]
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     “I will take some brandy,” said Edna, shivering as she removed her gloves and overshoes.

Related terms

• galosh
• gumshoe

Translations

Anagrams

• Voorhees

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.