Trapes vs Rapes - What's the difference?
trapes | rapes |
(obsolete, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
* Hudibras
* Gay
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As nouns the difference between trapes and rapes
is that trapes is or trapes can be (obsolete|colloquial) a slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman while rapes is .As a verb trapes
is .trapes
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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?
