Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To gad or flaunt about idly.
  • noun A slattern: an idle, sluttish woman; a jade.
  • noun going about; a tramp.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obs. or Colloq. A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
  • intransitive verb colloq. To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Obsolete spelling of traipse.
  • noun Obsolete spelling of traipse.

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  • The daughter, a tall, trapesing, trolloping, talkative maypole ...

    Goldsmith, She Stoops, I

    January 8, 2007