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Traipse vs Trod - What's the difference?

traipse | trod |

As verbs the difference between traipse and trod

is that traipse is to walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt while trod is simple past of tread.

As a noun traipse

is a long or tiring walk.

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

    *

    trod

    English

    Etymology 1

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tread)
    • English irregular simple past forms

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (trodd)
  • To walk heavily or laboriously; plod; tread
  • * 1813 , The Parliamentary history of England from the earliest period to the year 1803
  • *:Sir ; to me the noble lord seems to trod close in the foot-steps of his fellow-labourers in the ministerial vineyard, and u crow over us with the same reason
  • * 1833 , Timothy Flint, The history and geography of the Mississippi Valley
    • It renders the paths, and the banks of the bayous in that region almost impassable in autumn, until the cattle have trodded it down.
  • * 1866 , Fanny Fisher, Ainsworth's heir
  • *:They bore him to his chamber, where he lay all pale and tearless, like some broken reed, Some helpless shrub, all crushed and trodded down
  • * 1895 , Uchimura Kanzo, The Diary of a Japanese Convert
  • *:Yet alas! I see around me the trodding of the same old paths, each trying to excel the other how to ape the good old ministers who were "very much liked by their parishioners."
  • * 1962 , American Motorcyclist , February, page 16
  • *:Land of mystery and enchantment, continent of contrast and extremes, where adventure awaits those who dare to defy convention and choose to trod the unfamiliar path.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 23, author=Matt Weiland, title=Walker in the City, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Happily, he writes the way he walks: at a vigorous lope, both attentive to the varied soils of the ground he trods and curious about the dust and dandelions over the next hill. }}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 18, author=Sonia Day, title=Nip that gardening zeal in the bud, work=Toronto Star citation
    • , passage=And avoid trodding on the inevitably wet soil around the base of the shrubs as you work. }} ----