Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as galosh.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of galosh.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

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Examples

  • a light shoe or slipper, with a very thick ribbed worsted sock over it, put into an india-rubber golosh, which is kept on by a high spring gaiter.

    The Log House by the Lake A Tale of Canada William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • He lowered his eyes and watched his button bals with patent golosh and the grassblades that crazy-quilted them.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • He lowered his eyes and watched his button bals with patent golosh and the grassblades that crazy-quilted them.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • She wished she had not been so playful in flinging her golosh into the path.

    The Longest Journey 1924

  • But the water, just the snake of water, was amusing, and she flung her golosh at it to dam it up.

    The Longest Journey 1924

  • A golosh looked like a roller skate and was about as easy to walk with.

    Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

  • Aunt Emily removed the other golosh -- a shade more quickly than the first one.

    The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • Aunt Emily slowly removed one big golosh, then waited.

    The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • There were no descending footmarks, but one of the spots of wax close to the balusters had been trodden on while warm and soft, and bore the mark of the front of the heel of a golosh descending the stairs.

    John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

  • They had been so clearly absorbed in one another that she had fled on guiltily to Agnes, golosh in hand, without waiting to put it on; confident, however, that neither

    Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

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