galosh — ozdic

Definitions

noun

1

An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather:

2

An overshoe or boot worn in wet weather:

3

A gaiter, or legging, covering the upper part of the shoe and part of the leg.

verb

1

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

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.

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noun — a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow

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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 calve

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