different between traipse vs hurry

English

Alternative forms

• trapes

Etymology

Likely from French trépasser (“pass over or beyond”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?e?ps/, /t???e?ps/
• Rhymes: -e?ps

Verb

traipse (third-person singular simple present traipses, present participle traipsing, simple past and past participle traipsed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt.
   • 1728, Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book III, ll. 140-4:

     Lo next two slipshod Muses traipse along, In lofty madness, meditating song, / With tresses staring from poetic dreams, / And never wash'd, but in Castalia’s streams [...].

2. (intransitive, colloquial) To walk about, especially when expending much effort, or unnecessary effort.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To walk (a distance or journey) wearily or with effort; to walk about or over (a place).

Synonyms

• (walk about): gad, travel, walk
• (walk about or over (a place)): cover, travel, traverse

Related terms

• trespass

Translations

Noun

traipse (plural traipses)

1. A long or tiring walk.

   It was a long traipse uphill all the way home.

Synonyms

• (long or tiring walk): hike, trek

Translations

Anagrams

• @ parties, Pirates, Prestia, airstep, eartips, parties, pastier, piaster, piastre, pirates, praties, rapiest, raspite, tapiser

English

Etymology

From Middle English horien (“to rush, impel”), probably a variation of hurren (“to vibrate rapidly, buzz”), from Proto-Germanic *hurzan? (“to rush”) (compare Middle High German hurren (“to hasten”), Norwegian hurre (“to whirl around”)), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run”) (compare Latin curr? (“I run”), Tocharian A kursär/Tocharian B kwärsar (“league; course”)). Related to hurr, horse, rush.

Alternative etymology derives hurry as a variant of harry, which see.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??.i/ (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (US) IPA^(key): [?h?.i] (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• Rhymes: -?ri

Noun

hurry (countable and uncountable, plural hurries)

1. Rushed action.
2. Urgency.

3. (American football) an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play.
4. (music) A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation.

Derived terms

• in a hurry

Translations

Verb

hurry (third-person singular simple present hurries, present participle hurrying, simple past and past participle hurried)

1. (intransitive) To do things quickly.
2. (intransitive) Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something.

3. (transitive) To cause to be done quickly.
4. (transitive) To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

   • the rapid Stream presently draws him in , carries him away , and hurries him down violently.
5. (transitive) To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity.
6. (mining) To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway.
   • 1842, The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 45:

     Elizabeth Day, aged seventeen […] "I have been nearly nine years in the pit. I trapped for two years when I first went, and have hurried ever since. I have hurried for my father until a year ago. I have to help to riddle and fill, […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush

Translations

See also

• haste
• hurry up
• di di mau