trappy
English
Etymology
trap + -y
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æpi
Adjective
trappy (comparative trappier, superlative trappiest)
- (horse riding) Of a gait, short, rapid and high-stepping.
- traplike, reminiscent of a trap
- Abundant in traps
- 1918, J. Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village:
- This district is not so easy for a stranger to ride his own line over as the Midlands; it is not half so stiff, but it is often cramped and trappy.
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- (mineralogy) Like the mineral called trap; trappean; trappous.