to traipse

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

To walk in a careless or sluttish manner.--Johnson. It is almost exclusively a woman's word.


Two slip-shod nurses traipse along,

In lofty madness meditating song,

With tresses staring from poetic dreams,

And never wash'd, but in Castalia's streams.--Pope, Dunciad.

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