Synonyms for traipsing
verb walkAntonyms for traipsing
Word Origin & History
1590s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal French trepasser "pass over or beyond," from Old French trespasser (see trespass). Or from a source related to Middle Dutch trappen, dialectal Norwegian trappa "to tread, stamp" (see trap). Liberman points out that it resembles German traben "tramp" "and other similar verbs meaning 'tramp; wander; flee' in several European languages. They seem to have been part of soldiers' and vagabonds' slang between 1400 and 1700. In all likelihood, they originated as onomatopoeias and spread to neighboring languages from Low German." Related: Traipsed; traipsing.
Example Sentences fortraipsing
After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.
All the rest of it traipsing about from place to place like a wandering gipsy.
"I don't see what you want to be traipsing about after dark for," said Marilla shortly.
Nice clothes I shall get, too, traipsing through weather like this.
Could they have wandered up the hill road,—the discontented, "traipsing," exasperating things?
Allan's been traipsing this land since two years before you were born, and that is more than twenty years ago.
Could they have wandered up the hill road—the discontented, “traipsing,” exasperating things?
A nice figure I'd cut, traipsing around the battlefields in a kimono, and looking for a kindly bullet to lay me low.
I was traipsing to-day with your Mr. Sterne, to go along with them to Moore, and recommend his business to the Treasury.
The bird that had been traipsing all over hell's footstool trying to get a line on his lost sweetheart.