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Antonyms for traipse

Grammar : Verb
Spell : treyps
Phonetic Transcription : treɪps

Definition of traipse

Origin :
  • 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.
  • verb walk
Example sentences :
  • "Or why she consents to traipse all over the country with you," laughed Ted.
  • Extract from : « Ted Strong in Montana » by Edward 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.
  • Extract from : « By the Light of the Soul » by Mary 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.
  • Extract from : « Mary Rose of Mifflin » by Frances R. Sterrett
  • And what's more, you just don't need to traipse along another step with me now.
  • Extract from : « Bob Hampton of Placer » by Randall 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.
  • Extract from : « Pushed and the Return Push » by George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
  • Goodness knows where you may have dropped it, and if you think I'm going to traipse back you're much mistaken.
  • Extract from : « A Patriotic Schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil
  • She was a young forty, yet somehow hardly young enough to traipse houseless after him wherever his whim might lead him.
  • Extract from : « The Tower of Oblivion » by Oliver Onions
  • Women, whose age it is impossible to tell, trail and traipse in front of alleys within which loom greasy, black staircases.
  • Extract from : « Nooks and Corners of Old Paris » by Georges Cain

Synonyms for traipse

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