TRAPES

Etymology 1

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

Noun

trapes

(seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.

Anagrams

• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps

Source: Wiktionary

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Trapes, n. Etym: [See Trape.]

Definition: A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Trapes, v. i.

Definition: To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

TRAPE

Trape, v. i. Etym: [See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.]

Definition: To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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