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Knockabout vs Traipse - What's the difference?

knockabout | traipse |

As nouns the difference between knockabout and traipse

is that knockabout is (sailing) a small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the massachusetts area while traipse is a long or tiring walk.

As an adjective knockabout

is boisterous.

As a verb traipse is

(obsolete) to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.

knockabout

English

Adjective

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  • Boisterous
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 19, Alastair Macaulay, In a City Ballet Quartet, Two Choreographic Voices Manage to Stand Out, New York Times citation
    • , passage=I like the way Ana Sophia Scheller — replacing the injured Ashley Bouder — doesn’t exaggerate the ballet’s second lead woman, but Ms. Bouder’s blend of knockabout comedy and physical brilliance is missed. }}
  • Suitable for rough use.
    • I have a knockabout cello for non-concert gigs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
    • We sailed our knockabout around Cape Cod.
  • (entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
  • (circus) A tumbler.
  • Clothing suitable for rough use.
  • Workers habitually engaged in casual employment.
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    • traipse

    English

    Alternative forms

    * trapes

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
  • * 1728 , Alexander Pope, The Dunciad , Book III, ll. 140-4:
    • Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].
  • (colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
  • * 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
    • After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.
  • (colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort; to walk about or over (a place).
  • * 1874 , Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd :
    • She only got handy the Union-house on Sunday morning 'a b'lieve, and 'tis supposed here and there that she had traipsed every step of the way from Melchester.

    Synonyms

    * (walk about) gad, travel, walk * cover, travel, traverse

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long or tiring walk.
    • It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.

    Synonyms

    * (long or tiring walk) hike, trek

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