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Tromp vs Tremp - What's the difference?

tromp | tremp |

As verbs the difference between tromp and tremp

is that tromp is to tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot while tremp is to hitchhike.

As a noun tromp

is a blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

tromp

English

Etymology 1

1892, variant of (tramp).

Verb

(en verb)
  • (chiefly, US) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
  • :Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
  • :The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.
  • To utterly defeat an opponent.
  • :The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.
    • Synonyms
    * (tread heavily) march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample * (utterly defeat) clobber, decimate, rout, whip

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Compare trump, a trumpet.

    Alternative forms

    * trombe, trompe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

    • References

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    tremp

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Israel) To hitchhike.