tramp en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˈtɾamp/ (Scotland, Wales)
- /ˈtɹæmp/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
- (US) audio [ˈtɹɛə̯mp]
- [ˈtɹeə̯mp] ~ [ˈtɹɛə̯mp] US, Canada, æ-raising
- (Australia) audio
- /ˈtɹamp/ (British, Midlands, Northern-England, Southern, Standard)
- [ˈtɹeːmp] ~ [ˈtɹɛːmp] Australia, æ-raising
- /ˈtɹæːmp/ (Australia)
Etymology
From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp. Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.
Meanings
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The act of walking with heavy steps.
My dear sirs, did you actually imagine that one could not follow every clumsy move you made, with Joolby's low comedy tramp and the other two stealing in like a couple of hired assassins in a penny gaff melodrama?
1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
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(derogatory, sometimes) A homeless person; a vagabond.
[S]he had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:
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(derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend.
I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp.
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Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.
1924, George Sutherland, Texas Transport Terminal Company v. New Orleans: Dissent Brandeis:Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp-ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson; Volume 2, chapter 9:“Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.
1960, Lobsang Rampa, The Rampa Story, chapter Six:Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
1919, Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, chapter 10:
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(Australia, New-Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.
2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, page 186:The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
1968, John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois, page 75:Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you′re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp up Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.
2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 734:I got in with the American Fur Company and set out for another tramp to trade with the Indians on the North and South Platte Rivers.
1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 40:
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(in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal.
2015 September 29 (last accessed), Mining Magazine, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| tramps | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
tramphood · tramp trade · railroad tramp · trampess · ocean tramp · tramp steamer · tramp iron · tramp art · tramp juice · trampism · trampdom · tramp stamp · tramp data · tramp ant · tramp-pick · trampish · tramplike · saddle tramp · supertramp · rubber tramp · tramp chair
Synonyms
whore · fornicatrix · scatterling · floosy · streel · tramp · cocotte · drab · geebag · mab · amorosa · painted Jezebel · landlouper · ramble · cockatrice · puzzel · alley cat · hoe · harlot · down-and-outer · fornicatour · vagabond · jillflirt · hoe-bag · slag · nymphomaniac · stiff · hussy · doxy · thotty · sweet cheeks · demimondaine · bop · rig · grisette · paker · crumpet · lorette · hoochie · Quicumque vult · lightskirt · giglot · clochard · epithite · skit · dero · knight of the road · hoe bag · minx · cum dumpster · Jack out of doors · quean · village bicycle · wanderer · jay · ho · landleaper · cumhole · tart · bushwalk · landloper · little brown fucking machine · light-o'-love · alleycat · grim · hood rat · sket · manizer · fuckstress · wench · waistcoateer · cumwhore · tramp · skank · gillian · drifter · yagger · cum guzzler · amorette · scag · article · trull · puta · stroller · floater · town bicycle · palliard · cumslut · fornicatress · stale · quiff · nomad · rough sleeper · chippy · Athanasian wench · toerag · flirt-gill · slutbag · rogue · floozie · bum · vagrant · slut · gadling · trek · trollop · skell · derelict · scrubber · wagon · eager beaver · mort wap-apace · wanton · NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise. · Fulham virgin · hobo · hoochie mama · stumblebum · strumpet · light-of-love · hobo · village bike · pike · loose woman · Essex girl · floogy · piker · casual · 304 · cockslut · floozy · treddle · gill · tartlet · Cyprian · skelder · truant · rolling stone · skettle · amoret · swaggie · town bike · vagabond · good-time girl · blowsabella · ho-bag · hike · thot · jade · lady of light virtue · bum · down-and-out · sloven · slapper · fornicator · ho bag · cockwhore · slattern · moll · floosie · LBFM · waif · ranger · swagman
Translations (99)
vi đi dạo (long, wandering walk) · cs vandr (long, wandering walk) · la errō (homeless person) · pt vaca (promiscuous woman) · nl hoer (promiscuous woman) · he יַחְפָן (homeless person) · eo vagulo (homeless person) · nb hjemløs (homeless person) · el παλιογυναίκα (promiscuous woman) · sh klòšār (homeless person) · es vagabundo (homeless person) · uk волоцюга (homeless person) · fi lutka (promiscuous woman) · ga fear siúil (homeless person) · gd sgliùrach (promiscuous woman) · eo vagado (long, wandering walk) · de Penner (homeless person) · fr traînée (promiscuous woman) · zdj djamɓazi (promiscuous woman) · pt vadia (promiscuous woman) · sh skítnica (homeless person) · pt vagabunda (homeless person) · sh ски́тница (homeless person) · nl zwerver (homeless person) · ca rodamón (homeless person) · de Landstreicher (homeless person) · mi kaipaoe (homeless person) · mk ски́тник (homeless person) · dsb dundak (homeless person) · ro vagabond (homeless person) · cs tulák (homeless person) · de Schlampe (promiscuous woman) · fi lunttu (promiscuous woman) · mk ку́рва (promiscuous woman) · es ramera (promiscuous woman) · ro curvă (promiscuous woman) · fr clochard (homeless person) · nl sloerie (promiscuous woman) · fa راکاره (promiscuous woman) · az avara (homeless person) · cs vandrák (homeless person) · nl dakloze (homeless person) · es vagabunda (homeless person) · kk қаңғыбас (homeless person) · la planus (homeless person) · uk бомж (homeless person) · de Landstreicherin (homeless person) · id gelandangan (homeless person) · sh lútalica (homeless person) · uk бродяга (homeless person) · fr garce (promiscuous woman) · de Vagabund (homeless person) · it vagabondo (homeless person) · cs coura (promiscuous woman) · ru бомж (homeless person) · cs tramp (long, wandering walk) · nl landloper (homeless person) · pl tramp (homeless person) · gd reipseach (promiscuous woman) · it barbone (homeless person) · it puttana (promiscuous woman) · cmn 流浪漢 /流浪汉 (homeless person) · sh кло̀ша̄р (homeless person) · es prostituta (promiscuous woman) · gl baldrogas (homeless person) · nrf dgeux (homeless person) · bg курва (promiscuous woman) · gl baldreo (promiscuous woman) · ia vagabundo (homeless person) · twf tràmpiʼína (homeless person) · da vagabund (homeless person) · ru шлю́ха (promiscuous woman) · ru бродя́га (homeless person) · cs čundr (long, wandering walk) · nb boms (homeless person) · sl klošar (homeless person) · grc ἀλήτης (homeless person) · pt galinha (promiscuous woman) · sh лу́талица (homeless person) · nl vagebond (homeless person) · fr va-nu-pieds (homeless person) · fi kulkuri (homeless person) · de Flittchen (promiscuous woman) · bg скитник (homeless person) · ro târfă (promiscuous woman) · gd luid (promiscuous woman) · cs běhna (promiscuous woman) · pt puta (promiscuous woman) · nb uteligger (homeless person) · pt vagabundo (homeless person) · es golfa (promiscuous woman) · it sgualdrina (promiscuous woman) · es puta (promiscuous woman) · ta நாடோடி (homeless person) · ru потаску́ха (promiscuous woman) · tly avərə (homeless person) · ru бося́к (homeless person) · hu csavargó (homeless person) · gl vagabundo (homeless person)