colloq. and dial. Also 9 trapse. [Goes with TRAPES v., but of later appearance.]
1. An opprobrious name for a woman or girl slovenly in person or habits; ‘a dangling slattern.’
1676. Poor Robin’s Intell., 11–18 April, 2/2. A lazy trapes that cares not how late she sits up, nor how long she lies in the morning.
1678. Butler, Hud., III. II. 471. He found the sullen Trapes Possest with th’ Devil, Worms, and Claps.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Trapes, a dangling Slattern.
1714. Gay, What d’ye call it, I. i. From Door to Door I’d sooner whine and beg,… Than marry such a Trapes.
1780. H. Walpole, Lett. to Mason, 31 Aug. There was a trapes of a housekeeper.
1811. Ora & Juliet, IV. 191. You and your dirty trapes.
1905. Eng. Dial. Dict. [cited from Lancash., Yorks, to Essex, Somerset].
2. An act or course of ‘trapesing’; a tiresome or disagreeable tramp.
1862. Mrs. H. Wood, Channings (1866), 471. It’s such a toil and a trapes up them two pair of stairs.
1866. Mrs. Lynn Linton, Liz. Lort., I. xiii. 302. He … asked if the ladies would like to go down the mine?… his lass shouldn’t go through such a trapse.
1887. T. Hardy, Woodlanders, xlviii. Leading folk a twelve-mile traipse.
1893. Couch, Delectable Duchy, 196. A brave trapse all the way from Upper Woon.
