"Galoshin" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name of a play by Guizard, and the title character of that play.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Galoshins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Galoshin (plural Galoshins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Scottish English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888, “Hallowmas Eve”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 93, page 498",
          "text": "In they stalk, got up in grotesque improvisations of mumming costume, and each armed with a wooden sword, and garrying a ghostly lantern hollowed out of a giant turnip, “Hara domes in Galoshin,” as that individual himself informs the company —being doubtless the traditional representative of some forgotten Templar Knight; and presently he is engaged in a sanguinary hand-to-hand encounter with another wooden-sworded champion upon the floor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stephen Miller, “'I HAVE THE PROSPECT OF GOING TO GALLOWAY': THE REV. WALTER GREGOR AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM”, in Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society",
          "text": "The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, E Cass, “The James Madison Carpenter Collection of British Folk Plays”, in Folklore, volume 123, number 1",
          "text": "This is especially true of the Galoshins plays where his fixation on numbers and line lengths led him to mistake the nature of the play.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, page 23",
          "text": "Referred to as Daft Days by the Galoshin mummers in Scotland, this was a liminal period when normal conventions were in abeyance and abnormal conduct was permitted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play."
      ],
      "id": "en-Galoshin-en-noun-HHZp2TVN",
      "links": [
        [
          "mummer",
          "mummer"
        ],
        [
          "guiser",
          "guiser"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Galoshin"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name of a play by Guizard, and the title character of that play.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Galoshins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Galoshin (plural Galoshins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Scottish English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1888, “Hallowmas Eve”, in The Illustrated London News, volume 93, page 498",
          "text": "In they stalk, got up in grotesque improvisations of mumming costume, and each armed with a wooden sword, and garrying a ghostly lantern hollowed out of a giant turnip, “Hara domes in Galoshin,” as that individual himself informs the company —being doubtless the traditional representative of some forgotten Templar Knight; and presently he is engaged in a sanguinary hand-to-hand encounter with another wooden-sworded champion upon the floor.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Stephen Miller, “'I HAVE THE PROSPECT OF GOING TO GALLOWAY': THE REV. WALTER GREGOR AND THE ETHNOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM”, in Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society",
          "text": "The only exception to this is the full text of a guising, or Galoshin, play from Balmaghie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, E Cass, “The James Madison Carpenter Collection of British Folk Plays”, in Folklore, volume 123, number 1",
          "text": "This is especially true of the Galoshins plays where his fixation on numbers and line lengths led him to mistake the nature of the play.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, page 23",
          "text": "Referred to as Daft Days by the Galoshin mummers in Scotland, this was a liminal period when normal conventions were in abeyance and abnormal conduct was permitted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mummer",
          "mummer"
        ],
        [
          "guiser",
          "guiser"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Scotland) A mummer or guiser who performs in a midwinter Mummers play."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Scotland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Galoshin"
}