different between traipse vs wobble

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 earlier wabble (“wobble”), probably from Low German wabbeln (“to wobble”). Compare Dutch wiebelen and wobbelen (“to wobble”), Old Norse vafla (“to hover about, totter”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?bl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?bl?/
• Rhymes: -?b?l

Noun

wobble (plural wobbles)

1. An unsteady motion.
2. A tremulous sound.

3. (music) A low-frequency oscillation sometimes used in dubstep
4. (genetics) A variation in the third codon that codes for a specific aminoacid

Synonyms

• (unsteady motion): jiggle, quiver, shake, tremble
• (tremulous sound): quaver, tremble, tremolo, vibrato

Translations

Verb

wobble (third-person singular simple present wobbles, present participle wobbling, simple past and past participle wobbled)

1. (intransitive) To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro.

2. (intransitive) To tremble or quaver.

3. (intransitive) To vacillate in one's opinions.

4. (transitive) To cause to wobble.

Synonyms

• (move with an uneven or rocking motion): judder, shake, shudder, tremble
• (quaver): quaver, quiver, tremble
• (vacillate): falter, vacillate, waffle, waver
• (cause to wobble): jiggle, rock, shake, wiggle

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• beblow