trapes

Obscure, as is common among colloquialisms. OED mentions possible association with Dutch trappen (“to tread or stamp the foot”), but objects that the connection is unconvincing.^[1] This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

trapes (plural trapeses)

1. Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI

See trape.

trapes

1. (seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
   • 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 A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 251:

     But when he found the sullen Trapes ¶ Possest with th’ Devil, Worms, and Claps,

   • 1715, John Gay, The What D'Ye Call It:

     From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, ¶ Than marry such a trapes.

   • 1728, [Edward Young], “Satire VI. On Women. Inscrib’d to the Right Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Germain.”, in Love of Fame, the Universal Passion. In Seven Characteristical Satires, 4th edition, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson […], published 1741, →OCLC, page 135:

     Since full each other ſtation of renown, ¶ Who would not be the greatest Trapes in town?

• “trapes”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈtɾa.pəs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈtɾa.pes]
• Rhymes: (Central, Balearic) -apəs, (Valencia) -apes
• Hyphenation: tra‧pes

trapes

1. plural of trapa

trapes

1. plural of trapa

• IPA^(key): /tʁap/
• Hyphenation: trapes

trapes

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of traper

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾapes/ [ˈt̪ɾa.pes]
• Rhymes: -apes
• Syllabification: tra‧pes

trapes m pl

1. plural of trape