traipse

Anglais

Étymologie

Probablement du français trépasser.

Verbe 1

traipse \tɹeɪps\, \t͡ʃɹeɪps\ intransitif

1. (Désuet) Marcher d’une manière désordonnée ou peu attrayante ; marcher dans la boue.
2. (Familier) Se promener, surtout en déployant beaucoup d’efforts, ou des efforts inutiles.
   • Once our ancestors got moving on two legs, they kept on walking, and that journey has continued right up to today. In a lifetime, the average person will take about 150 million steps—enough to circle Earth three times. We stroll, stride, plod, traipse, amble, saunter, shuffle, tiptoe, lumber, tromp, lope, strut and swagger. After walking all over someone, we might be asked to walk a mile in their shoes. Heroes walk on water, and geniuses are walking encyclopedias. But rarely do we humans think about walking. It has become, you might say, pedestrian. The fossils, however, reveal something else entirely. Walking is anything but ordinary. Instead it is a complex, convoluted evolutionary experiment that began with humble apes taking their first steps in Miocene forests and eventually set hominins on a path around the world. — (Jeremy DeSilva, “Walks of Life”, Scientific American, vol. 327, no. 5, novembre 2022, pages 72-81)

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3. (Familier) Voyager avec un but précis ; généralement une quantité importante ou fastidieuse.
   • My little cousin Angie and my sister Laurie could legally drive to town, enabling them to traipse the twenty minutes to the Louis Joliet Mall in the nearby metropolis of Joliet. — (Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living, 2013)

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Verbe 2

traipse \tɹeɪps\, \t͡ʃɹeɪps\ transitif

1. Crapahuter.

Nom commun

traipse \tɹeɪps\, \t͡ʃɹeɪps\ transitif

1. Marche longue ou fatigante