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traipse
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Word definitions for traipse in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB around ▪ I haven't the time to go traipsing around art galleries. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Traipsing round museums all day is not my idea of fun. ▪ We traipsed around every store in town, trying to find the right ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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, ...
Usage examples of traipse.
Do you suppose an invalid would traipse around the malpais after dark?
The last thing he wanted to do was waste time traipsing around die metroplex after a group of recalcitrant runners, but unfortunately he had no choice.
Told to use the service entrance, the offenders argued that they had seen mannequins wearing nothing but panty hose being traipsed through the day before, and no one had seemed to mind.
Will stomped back outside, traipsing through leafy shrubs and prickly hedges, unmindful of any damage to the greenery.
Evening Star commune, parked his car, said hello to a spacey-eyed woman traipsing along behind a herd of mangy goats, and headed briskly toward a nearby hoganlike structure in which a recent commune arrival known as Lord Elephant holed out.
I can think of no other reason for you to be traipsing around the country in such a guise.
If she had any in the first place-which is doubtful, seeing as she was traipsing around the Union District in the wee hours, all alone.
She was so furious, she leaped to her feet and started traipsing across the mattress in giant steps.
In minutes, they would be traipsing across acres and acres of mysterious landfill.
She should be in Chiastelm with Steifann, not traipsing about like a tinker!
She hurried into her room and whirled about to make certain Sebastian was not seen by whoever was now traipsing down the busy corridor.
Bad and all as it was trapped here in the living room, traipsing round a bloody art gallery would be immeasurably worse.
Bledsoe that Widow Becket would do well to have a care for her reputation, for more than one trustworthy person had seen her traipsing carelessly about Mayfair, unescorted, in the company of Lord Connery!
Risky for young ladies, let me tell you, risky, traipsing abroad unescorted after dark.
She indicated the horizonless surface through which they were traipsing.