galoche

galoche (plural galoches)

1. Alternative spelling of galosh.

• lochage

From French galoche (“clog, galosh”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡalɔsjə/, [ɡ̊aˈlʌɕə]

galoche c (singular definite galochen, plural indefinite galocher)

1. galoche, galosh, galoshe

• “galoche” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.lɔʃ/

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Of unclear origin. Possibly from Vulgar Latin *calopia, from calopodia, from Ancient Greek κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's last”). Alternatively from a Vulgar Latin gallicula, diminutive of Latin gallica (“Gallic shoe”). Other origins have also been proposed.

galoche f (plural galoches)

1. clog (shoe with a wooden sole)
2. a chin that is long and pointed
3. (slang) French kiss

• galocher
• rouler une galoche

galoche

1. inflection of galocher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “galoche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Galoche”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French galoche.

galoche f (invariable)

1. galosh

From Old French galoche.

galoche

1. A clog or patten.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche.

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