different between scamper vs trek

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?skæmp?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?skæmp?/
• Rhymes: -æmp?(r)

Etymology 1

First attested in 1687. Origin uncertain, but possibly from Dutch schamperen, from Old French escamper, from Italian scampare (“to run away”).

Noun

scamper (plural scampers)

1. A quick, light run.

Verb

scamper (third-person singular simple present scampers, present participle scampering, simple past and past participle scampered)

1. (intransitive) To run quickly and lightly, especially in a playful or undignified manner.

   The dog scampered after the squirrel.

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.

Synonyms

• scurry
• See also Thesaurus:walk

Translations

Etymology 2

scamp +? -er

Noun

scamper (plural scampers)

1. One who skimps or does slipshod work.

   Synonym: skimper

Anagrams

• Campers, campers

English

Alternative forms

• treck (archaic)

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and tr?ken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekan?, *trakjan? (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

trek (plural treks)

1. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
2. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
3. A slow or difficult journey.

4. A long walk.

   Synonym: slog

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

     Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.

Related terms

• trigger

Translations

Anagrams

• rekt

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /træk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

1. to haul
2. to move (moving house)
3. to pull

Descendants

• ? English: trek

Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

Noun

trek (plural trekke)

1. journey

Derived terms

• Groot Trek

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?k/
• Hyphenation: trek
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

1. (uncountable) appetite

   Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar

   Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task

2. (countable) journey, migration
3. (uncountable) animal migration
4. (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
5. (countable) feature, trait

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

trek

1. first-person singular present indicative of trekken
2. imperative of trekken

Anagrams

• rekt

French

Noun

trek m (plural treks)

1. treck
2. trecking

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ek]

Noun

trek

1. truck

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30