different between frape vs trape

English

Etymology 1

Compare frap.

Noun

frape (plural frapes)

1. (obsolete) A crowd, a rabble.

References

Etymology 2

Blend of Facebook +? rape

Noun

frape (countable and uncountable, plural frapes)

1. (Internet slang) An act of using another person's Facebook account to post derogatory messages.

Verb

frape (third-person singular simple present frapes, present participle fraping, simple past and past participle fraped)

1. (Internet slang) To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.

Derived terms

• frapist

Anagrams

• FERPA, afper

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French frapper (“hit”).

Verb

frape

1. To hit

English

Etymology

Perhaps via Medieval Latin *trappa, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dreb-, from *der- (“to walk, step”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?p/

Noun

trape (plural trapes)

1. (obsolete) A messy or untidy woman.
   • 1678, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:

     Hard was his fate in this I own, / Nor will I for the trapes atone; / Indeed to guess I am not able, / What made her thus inexorable […]

Verb

trape (third-person singular simple present trapes, present participle traping, simple past and past participle traped)

1. (intransitive) To drag.
2. (intransitive) To run about idly or like a slattern.

Anagrams

• Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, treap

Old French

Alternative forms

• trappe

Etymology

Frankish *trappa (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *trap-, *tramp- (“to step”), from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”). More at English trap.

Noun

trape f (oblique plural trapes, nominative singular trape, nominative plural trapes)

1. trap (device design to ensnare or trap)
2. hiding place

Descendants

• French: trappe

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (trape)
• trappe on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Spanish

Etymology

From French draper. Assimilated to trapo.

Noun

trape m (plural trapes)

1. (dated) intermediate fabric used to make drapery