traipse
or trapes
- to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
- to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
- a tiring walk.
Origin of traipse
Related Words
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Contemporary Examples
Buy a pair of these and traipse around a big city center or off road through the Icelandic countryside.
The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Anthony Bourdain in Your LifeAllison McNearney
November 29, 2014
Get your own tailored tuxedo blazer to traipse around town in.
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Its massive platform gives city dwellers the opportunity to traipse around with relatively painless added height.
We imagine the cadre of Hollywood starlets who like to traipse about commando would be severely handicapped in this event.
Historical Examples
"Or why she consents to traipse all over the country with you," laughed Ted.
Ted Strong in MontanaEdward C. Taylor
I don't mean she's got enough to traipse round with duchesses and earls and that sort, but she's got enough.
By the Light of the SoulMary E. Wilkins Freeman
She called me up twice yesterday to see they needed it, as if I had nothin' to do but traipse aroun' after her.
Mary Rose of MifflinFrances R. Sterrett
And what's more, you just don't need to traipse along another step with me now.
Bob Hampton of PlacerRandall Parrish
Hard luck on me having to traipse at this time of night to a place I don't know to get orders you ought to have sent out.
Pushed and the Return PushGeorge Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
traipse
trapes
- (intr) to walk heavily or tiredly
- a long or tiring walk; trudge
Word Origin
Word Origin and History for traipse
v.
1590s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal French trepasser "pass over or beyond," from Old French trespasser (see trespass). Or from a source related to Middle Dutch trappen, dialectal Norwegian trappa "to tread, stamp" (see trap). Liberman points out that it resembles German traben "tramp" "and other similar verbs meaning 'tramp; wander; flee' in several European languages. They seem to have been part of soldiers' and vagabonds' slang between 1400 and 1700. In all likelihood, they originated as onomatopoeias and spread to neighboring languages from Low German." Related: Traipsed; traipsing.