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Trappy

Trappy \Trap"py\, a. (Min.) Same as Trappous.

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trappy

a. 1 (context horse riding English) Of a gait, short, rapid and high-stepping. 2 traplike, reminiscent of a trap 3 Abundant in traps

Usage examples of "trappy".

Unless footing got trappy, she could get up with them in five or ten minutes.

Lafayette picked his way through the trappy ground, took a hop over the stream, trotting after hounds who were moving steadily but not with speed.

He did snatch it and jump, but the trap jumped, too, in its own trappy way, and the Rat who got the cheese left the three tip rings of his tail to pay for it.

Safety lay in renewing the attack, a wicked irony: he must make his move to engage on the same trappy ground he had hoped would defeat his opponent.

Harry started toward the creek she sank up to her ankle in trappy ground.