traipse
pronunciation
How to pronounce traipse in British English:
UK [treɪps]
How to pronounce traipse in American English:
US [treps]
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- Verb:
- walk or tramp about
Word Origin
- traipse (v.)
- 1590s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal French trepasser "pass over or beyond," from Old French trespasser "cross, traverse, transgress" (see trespass). Or from a source related to Middle Dutch trappen, dialectal Norwegian trappa "to tread, stamp" (see trap (n.)). 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.
Example
- 1. You 're gonna let me traipse on out of here ?
- 2. We traipse happily along in our routines , always doing and experiencing the familiar .
- 3. Kaulback has watched all sorts of wildlife traipse across his yard over the nearly 50 years he 's lived in des plaines .
- 4. Some consumers , having paid for door-to-door delivery , will not want to traipse to a nearby shop or petrol station to collect their parcels .
- 5. Because all 50 states and the district of columbia have their own regulators , insurers , whether domestic or foreign , that want to operate nationally must traipse from albany to sacramento seeking permission .