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Galosh

Definition: Galosh

Galosh

Noun

1. A waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Galosh

Synonyms: arctic (n), golosh (n), gumshoe (n), rubber (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Galosh

Non-English Usage: "Galosh" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (overshoe).

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Commercial Usage: Galosh

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Galosh

Expression using "galosh": galosh boot. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "galosh": galosh-and-windchill.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Galosh

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

galosh

16
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Galosh

Language Translations for "galosh"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

galloshe (golosh, gumshoe, overshoe, rubbers). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏الكلوش حذاء فوقي مطاطي. (various references)

   

Czech

  

galoše (galoshes, golosh, overshoes, rubbers), holínky (golosh, knee boot). (various references)

   

Danish

  

galoche (golosh). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

overschoen (galosch, golosh, overshoe). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

galoŝo (overshoe). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کفش لاستیکی , گالش (Golosh, Overshoe), روکفشی (Overshoe). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kalossi (galosch, golosh, overshoe). (various references)

   

French

  

galoche (galosch). (various references)

   

German

  

galosche (galosch, golosh, overshoe). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γαλότσα (galosch, golosh, gumshoe, overshoe). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ער"ל (overshoe). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sárcipõ (overshoes, rubbers), kalocsni (gumshoes, rubbers, storm rubber). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

sepatu luar. (various references)

   

Italian

  

soprascarpa (golosh, overshoe). (various references)

   

Manx

  

far-vraag (clog, overshoe). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

kalosje. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aloshgay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

galocha (gal, galosch, golosh, overshoe, overshoot). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gheatã (boot, brogue, gaiter, shoe), galoş (clamp, goloshes, overshoe, overshoes), şoşon (gaiter). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

галоша (golosh, gumshoe, overshoe). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kaljača (golosh, overshoe). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

chanclo (clog, golosh, overshoe, vamp). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

galosch (galosch, golosh, gumshoe, overshoe, rubber). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

lastik (elasticated, gum, gum elastic, india rubber, rubber, rubbertire, tire), kaloş (golosh). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

галоша. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

đi tuyết (golosh). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Galosh

Derivations

Words beginning with "galosh": galoshe, galoshed, galoshes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Galosh" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gadocha, galach, Gallansch, galloes, galoes, galors, galos, Galozzi, galsh, Gamoche, gaolosh, gaols, gelos, Gerloch, Glosha, gralloch, grallochs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Galosh"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "galosh" (pronounced gulÄ"sh)
3-l Ä" shslosh.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Galosh

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-g-h-l-o-s"

-1 letter: gaols, goals, halos, shoal.

-2 letters: also, gals, gaol, gash, goal, goas, gosh, hags, halo, hogs, hols, lags, lash, logs, sago, shag, shog, slag, slog, sola.

-3 letters: ago, als, ash, gal, gas, goa, gos, hag, hao, has, hog, lag, las, log, ohs, sag, sal, sha, sol.

-4 letters: ag, ah, al, as, go, ha, ho, la, lo, oh, os, sh, so.

 Words containing the letters "a-g-h-l-o-s"
 

+1 letter: galoshe, gasohol, goulash.

 

+2 letters: galoshed, galoshes, gasohols, halogens, hidalgos, shoaling, shogunal.

 

+3 letters: agallochs, gasholder, golgothas, goulashes, helotages, holograms, hooligans, hourglass, hyalogens, loathings, logomachs, longhairs, longhands, longheads, oligarchs, onslaught, outlaughs, schoolbag.

 

+4 letters: abolishing, algorithms, allographs, alongshore, chalcogens, coliphages, esophageal, gasholders, gastrolith, glasshouse, goalmouths, gypsophila, halogenous, halogetons, hologamies, holographs, horselaugh, lagomorphs, larghettos, logarithms, logographs, logorrheas, oleographs, onslaughts, overslaugh, polygraphs, schoolbags, shallowing, xylographs.

 

+5 letters: altogethers, anthologies, anthologist, eschatology, gastroliths, geophysical, glasshouses, grapholects, gypsophilas, hagiologies, halogenates, haplologies, heliographs, homologates, hooliganism, horselaughs, hourglasses, hypoglossal, largemouths, lithographs, loggerheads, logomachies, lymphograms, oligarchies, overslaughs, pathologies, pathologist, phlebograms, phraseology, polyphagias, polyphagies, polyphagous, stylography, theologians, wholesaling, xylophagous.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Galosh


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 6C 6F 73 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01101100 01101111 01110011 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#108 &#111 &#115 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 006C 006F 0073 0068

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

416778818574

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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