Crossword clues for traipse
traipse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traipse \Traipse\, v. i. [Cf. G. trapsen, trappsen, trappen, to
tread noisily, to walk stamping. See Trample, Trape.]
To walk or run about in a slatternly, careless, or
thoughtless manner. [Colloq.]
--Pope.
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, 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.
Wiktionary
n. A long or tiring walk. vb. 1 (context intransitive obsolete English) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt. 2 (context intransitive colloquial English) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort. 3 (context transitive colloquial English) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort; to walk about or over (a place).
WordNet
v. walk or tramp about [syn: shlep]
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.