Word.ws English Dictionary

trampoose

/tɹæmˈpuːz/

trampoose verb: to walk laboriously or heavily.

Verb

trampoose (third-person singular simple present trampooses, present participle trampoosing, simple past and past participle trampoosed)

  1. (US, dated, slang) To walk laboriously or heavily.
    • "you don't think I'd trampoose about from poll to poll, for nothin, do you?"1837, Asa Greene, A Glance at New York

Forms of trampoose

third-person singular presenttrampooses
present participletrampoosing
past participletrampoosed
pasttrampoosed
alternative formtrampouse

Origin of trampoose

See tramp, trample, and traipse.

Questions about trampoose

What does trampoose mean?
Trampoose means to walk laboriously or heavily.
What part of speech is trampoose?
Trampoose is a verb.
How do you pronounce trampoose?
Trampoose is pronounced /tɹæmˈpuːz/.
What is the past tense of trampoose?
The past tense of trampoose is trampoosed.

Words near trampoose in the dictionary

  1. trampolines
  2. trampolining
  3. trampolinist
  4. trampolinists
  5. trampolins
  6. trampoose
  7. trampoosed
  8. trampooses
  9. trampoosing
  10. trampot
  11. trampots

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trampoose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-trampoose.ogg.

Cite this entry: “trampoose.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/trampoose. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.