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galoshing

galoshing is the present participle and gerund of galosh.

Meaning of galosh

Verb

galosh (third-person singular simple present galoshes, present participle galoshing, simple past and past participle galoshed)

  1. (intransitive) 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.1979, Penelope Mortimer, About Time: An Aspect of Autobiography, page 36

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Questions about galoshing

What is galoshing the present participle and gerund of?
Galoshing is the present participle and gerund of galosh.

Words near galoshing in the dictionary

  1. galosh
  2. galoshe
  3. galoshed
  4. galoshes
  5. Galoshin
  6. galoshing
  7. Galoshins
  8. galoshoes
  9. galoubet
  10. galoubets
  11. galouti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: galoshing (page history and authors); galosh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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