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trapes en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Forms

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trapeses Number=Plur lexicographic

trapes en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

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.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

Forms

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trapeses Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
trapesed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
trapesed Tense=Past lexicographic
trapesing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

trapes en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

See trape.

Meanings

  1. (colloquial, qualifier:seldom in use since about WWII) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
    • From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, ¶ Than marry such a trapes. 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It:
    • But when he found the sullen Trapes ¶ Possest with th’ Devil, Worms, and Claps, 1677 (indicated as 1678), [Samuel Butler], “[The Third Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The Third and Last Part. […], London: […] Robert Horne, […], published 1679, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 251:
    • Since full each other ſtation of renown, ¶ Who would not be the greatest Trapes in town? 1728, [Edward Young], “Satire VI. On Women. Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Germain.”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 135: