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trapesing

trapesing is the present participle and gerund of trapes.

trapesing is the alternative form of traipsing.

Meaning of trapes

Noun

trapes

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

Meaning of traipsing

Noun

traipsing (countable and uncountable, plural traipsings)

  1. Laborious walking.

Forms of trapesing

Verb
alternative formtrapessing
alternative formtrapsing
Noun
pluraltrapesings

Questions about trapesing

What is trapesing the present participle and gerund of?
Trapesing is the present participle and gerund of trapes.

Words near trapesing in the dictionary

  1. trape
  2. traped
  3. trapes
  4. trapesed
  5. trapeses
  6. trapesing
  7. trapesings
  8. trapezate
  9. trapeze
  10. trapeze artist
  11. trapeze artists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trapesing (page history and authors); trapes (page history and authors); traipsing (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.

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