different between traps vs trapes
traps
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /t?æps/
- Rhymes: -æps
Noun
traps
- plural of trap
Verb
traps
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trap
Anagrams
- S trap, parts, prats, rapts, sprat, strap, tarps
traps From the web:
- what traps heat in the atmosphere
- what traps light energy
- what traps energy from the sun
- what traps sunlight for photosynthesis
- what traps greenhouse gases
- what traps heat
- what traps does rainsford set
- what traps sunlight
trapes
English
Etymology 1
Obscure, as is common among colloquialisms. OED mentions possible association with Dutch trappen, to tread or stamp the foot, but objects that the connection is unconvincing.(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)
- Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
Noun
trapes (plural trapeses)
- Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
Etymology 2
See trape.
Noun
trapes
- (seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
- He found the sullen trapes / Possest with th' devil, worms, and claps.
- 1715, John Gay, The What D'ye Call It
- From door to door I'd sooner whine and beg, / Than marry such a trapes.
- 1728, Edward Young, The Love of Fame
- Since full each other station of renown, / Who would not be the greatest trapes in town?
Anagrams
- Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps
trapes From the web:
- what traps heat in the atmosphere
- what traps pathogens
- what traps heat
- what traps pollen
- what traps pathogens in the back of the throat
- what traps energy from the sun
- what traps heat in our atmosphere
- what traps sunlight for photosynthesis
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