traipse 的 3 个定义
traipsed, traips·ing.
- to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.
traipsed, traips·ing.
- to walk over; tramp: to traipse the fields.
- a tiring walk.
traipse 近义词
walk
更多traipse例句
- Buy a pair of these and traipse around a big city center or off road through the Icelandic countryside.
- Get your own tailored tuxedo blazer to traipse around town in.
- Its massive platform gives city dwellers the opportunity to traipse around with relatively painless added height.
- We imagine the cadre of Hollywood starlets who like to traipse about commando would be severely handicapped in this event.
- And what's more, you just don't need to traipse along another step with me now.
- Goodness knows where you may have dropped it, and if you think I'm going to traipse back you're much mistaken.
- She was a young forty, yet somehow hardly young enough to traipse houseless after him wherever his whim might lead him.
- Women, whose age it is impossible to tell, trail and traipse in front of alleys within which loom greasy, black staircases.
- “More as two months ve traipse all ofer,” volunteered the latter.
Where does the word traipse come from?
Traipse generally means “to wander aimlessly or idly while never reaching one’s goal,” as in Last night, they traipsed all over town trying to find a store that was still open.
Well, you’ll certainly wander aimlessly if you try to find the origin of the word traipse.
The word is first recorded around 1585–95. It could be related to the verb tramp, and one can definitely traipse, or “walk over,” something, such as fields or flowers. An alternative theory connects traipse to trespass, which originates from French.
Traipse isn’t alone: it finds lots of company in other English words that seem simple but whose origins are not. Discover more in our slideshow “‘Dog,’ ‘Boy,’ And Other Words That We Don’t Know Where They Came From.”