Traipse vs Prance - What's the difference?
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(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 :
As verbs the difference between traipse and prance
is that traipse is to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt while prance is to spring forward on the hind legs.As nouns the difference between traipse and prance
is that traipse is a long or tiring walk while prance is the act of prancing.traipse
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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.
