trapes
English
Etymology 1
Obscure, as is common among colloquialisms. OED mentions possible association with Dutch trappen, to tread or stamp the foot, but objects that the connection is unconvincing.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)
- Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
Noun
trapes (plural trapeses)
- Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
Etymology 2
See trape.
Noun
trapes
- (seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346:
- He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.
- 1715, John Gay, The What D'ye Call It
- From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.
- 1725–1728, [Edward Young], “(please specify the page)”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, OCLC 221368894:
- Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?
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Anagrams
- Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps
Spanish
Noun
trapes m pl
- plural of trape