Trakes vs Trapes - What's the difference?
trakes | trapes |
(obsolete, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
* Hudibras
* Gay
* Young
As nouns the difference between trakes and trapes
is that trakes is plural of lang=en while trapes is obsolete spelling of lang=en.As a verb trapes is
obsolete spelling of lang=en.trapes
English
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(es)Etymology 2
See trape.Noun
- He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.
- From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes .
- Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?