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🥾 Waterproof overshoe 🥾 To put on overshoes
to galosh

to galosh

8.8
To put waterproof covers over your shoes to keep them dry
  • verb
  • /ɡəˈlɑʃ/
translation icon : ponerse galoshes
  • He hurriedly galoshed the kids before they stepped into the puddles.

Examples

  • It is to put on some galoshes and walk through and find our way around.

  • "The black raincoated, rainhatted, and galoshed Bertha the Buzzard, beneath her big black umbrella, stepped back out into the dark night's storm.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • Before going outside in the rain, she always galoshes herself to keep her shoes dry.

  • To prepare for the storm, I galoshed my boots and grabbed my umbrella.

Surface Forms

galosh infinitive
galoshed past
galoshed past participle
galoshing present participle
galoshes third person singular

Etymology

To galosh comes from the same French galoche, and a helpful way to remember it is 'to put on a galosh' — that is, to cover your shoes with a waterproof overshoe. So to galosh means to put galoshes on to keep your feet and shoes dry.