trape
English edit
Etymology edit
Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trape (plural trapes)
- (obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
- 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
- Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable […]
Verb edit
trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)
- (intransitive) To drag.
- No, that coat's too big; it'll trape along the ground if you wear it.
- 1920, Raymond S. Spears, chapter 6, in Diamond Tolls:
- "I expect that's right," Frest admitted. "You going to drop right down—or be you hunting and traping along? You'n Delia?"
- (intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.
Anagrams edit
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin trappa, trapa, borrowed from Frankish *trappā. More at English trap.
Noun edit
trape oblique singular, f (oblique plural trapes, nominative singular trape, nominative plural trapes)
- trap (device design to ensnare or trap)
- hiding place
Descendants edit
References edit
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (trape)
- trappe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French draper. Assimilated to trapo.
Noun edit
trape m (plural trapes)
Further reading edit
- “trape”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014