traipse
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLikely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /tɹeɪps/, /t͡ʃɹeɪps/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪps
Verb
edittraipse (third-person singular simple present traipses, present participle traipsing, simple past and past participle traipsed)
- (intransitive) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Third”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, lines 140-144:
- Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].
- (intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
- After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To travel with purpose; usually a significant or tedious amount.
- While you were traipsing round Africa, I had to take care of mum and dad!
- So after all that work, I traipsed down to the shop to grab something to eat.
- (transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd:
- She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.
- (transitive, colloquial) to walk about or over (a place) aimlessly or insouciantly.
Synonyms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editintransitive: to walk about
|
transitive: to walk about or over
|
Noun
edittraipse (plural traipses)
- A long or tiring walk.
- It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.
- A meandering walk.
- 2021, Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock:
- it was an easy traipse down the rocky slope
Synonyms
editTranslations
editlong or tiring walk
|
Anagrams
editCategories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/eɪps
- Rhymes:English/eɪps/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- English colloquialisms
- English terms with usage examples
- English transitive verbs
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Gaits