galosh

English

Etymology

From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche (“shoe with a wooden sole”), but further history is uncertain.

further theories

• From Vulgar Latin *galopium or Late Latin calopedia (“a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole”), from Ancient Greek κᾱλοπόδιον (kālopódion), diminutive of κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's block”), compound of κᾶλον (kâlon, “wood”) and πούς (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): /ɡəˈlɒʃ/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Noun

galosh (plural galoshes)

1. An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather:
   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.
2. A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.

Alternative forms

• galoche, galoshe

Synonyms

• (waterproof rubber boot): Wellington boot

Translations

waterproof overshoe used to provide protection from rain or snow

• Albanian: galloshe (sq) f
• Belarusian: гало́ш m (halóš)
• Bulgarian: гало́ш (bg) m (galóš), шушо́н m (šušón)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 套鞋 (zh) (tàoxié), 膠鞋／胶鞋 (zh) (jiāoxié)

• Czech: galoše (cs) f
• Danish: galoche c
• Dutch: overschoen (nl) m, galoche (nl) f
• Finnish: kalossi (fi)
• French: (Quebec) claque (fr) f, galoche (fr) f
• Galician: galocha f
• Georgian: გოლოში (gološi), კალოში (ḳaloši)
• German: Galosche (de) f, Überschuh m, Gamasche (de) f
• Hungarian: kalucsni (hu)
• Italian: galoscia f
• Japanese: ガロッシュ (garosshu)
• Korean: 오버슈즈 (obeosyujeu)
• Macedonian: галош m (galoš)
• Navajo: kéʼachogii, kéchogii
• Polish: gumiak (pl) m, gumowiec (pl) m, kalosz (pl) m
• Portuguese: galocha (pt) f
• Russian: гало́ша (ru) f (galóša), кало́ша (ru) f (kalóša)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калоша f, каљача f

  Roman: kaloša f, kaljača (sh) f

• Slovak: galoša (sk) f
• Slovene: kaljača f
• Southern Altai: калош (kaloš)
• Spanish: bota para la lluvia f, bota de lluvia f, bota de goma f, zueco (es) m, chanclo (es) m
• Swedish: galosch (sv) c
• Turkish: galoş (tr), şoson (tr), ^{(please verify)} lastik (tr)
• Ukrainian: кало́ша f (kalóša)
• Welsh: esgidiau glaw f pl
• Yiddish: קאַלאָש f (kalosh)

See also

• rainboot
• overshoe
• galoshe, galoche
• gumshoe

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.