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Traipse vs Straggle - What's the difference?

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Traipse is a related term of straggle.


As verbs the difference between traipse and straggle

is that traipse is (obsolete) to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt while straggle is to stray from the road, course or line of march.

As nouns the difference between traipse and straggle

is that traipse is a long or tiring walk while straggle is the act of straggling.

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

    Anagrams

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    straggle

    English

    Verb

    (straggl)
  • To stray from the road, course or line of march.
    • He straggled away from the crowd and went off on his own.
  • To wander about; ramble.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The wolf spied out a straggling kid.
  • To spread at irregular intervals.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
    • , title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Then there was no more cover, for they straggled out, not in ranks but clusters, from among orange trees and tall, flowering shrubs
  • To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth.
  • * Mortimer
    • Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out.
  • To be dispersed or separated; to occur at intervals.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • straggling pistol shots
  • * Sir Walter Raleigh
    • They came between Scylla and Charybdis and the straggling rocks.

    Derived terms

    * (noun ) straggler * (adjective ) stragglingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of straggling.
    • (Carlyle)