traipse
A long or tiring walkA long or tiring walk.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
2 sensesA long or tiring walk.
It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.
Gewaltmarsch
A meandering walk.
Examples
4 sentencesTwenty minutes later a little girl came traipsing along.
She pissed in the vase of flowers and traipsed off.
We're down in the pit, cleaning out the muck, and Tom goes traipsing by and waves.
Do you think you can just traipse into the kitchen right after I've mopped the floors?
Translations
2 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).
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