galosh

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• To walk while wearing, or as if wearing, galoshes; to splash about.

Related

Similar words

• Wellington boot

Origin

• From Middle English galoche, from Old French galoche ("shoe with a wooden sole"), but further history is uncertain.
• From Vulgar Latin or Late Latin calopedia ("a wooden shoe; a shoe with a wooden sole"), from Ancient Greek καλοπόδιον, diminutive of καλόπους, compound of κᾶλον and πούς. (More at holt and foot.)
• From Late Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica ("Gallic (sandal)").
• From Old French galette ("flat round cake"), from galet.