Toddle vs Traipse - What's the difference?
toddle | traipse | Related terms |
To walk unsteadily, as a small child does.
To walk in a carefree manner.
(obsolete) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
* 1728 , Alexander Pope, The Dunciad , Book III, ll. 140-4:
(colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
* 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses :
(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 :
Toddle is a related term of traipse.
As verbs the difference between toddle and traipse
is that toddle is to walk unsteadily, as a small child does while traipse is (obsolete) to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.As a noun traipse is
a long or tiring walk.toddle
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Verb
- There he was, just toddling along.
Synonyms
* totterDerived terms
* toddler * toddle offtraipse
English
Alternative forms
* trapesVerb
(en-verb)- 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 [...].
- After traipsing about in the fog they found the grave sure enough.
- 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.