different between trots vs troths

English

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ts

Noun

trots

1. plural of trot

Noun

trots pl (plural only)

1. (slang) Diarrhoea/diarrhea.

2. (Australia, New Zealand, US, informal, with "the") A trotting race meet; harness racing.
   • 2002, Veronica Brodie, Mary-Anne Gale, My Side of the Bridge: The Life Story of Veronica Brodie as Told to Mary-Anne Gale, Wakefield Press, South Australia, page 49,

     A lot of people used to go out to the trots at Wayville. You?d see them all dressed up in their beads and bonnets and looking all flash, going off to the trots.

   • 2006, Mike Dillon, From The Horses Mouth: The Keith Haub Story, 2010, HarperCollins New Zealand, unnumbered page,

     ‘Russ drank two bottles of Coruba rum at the races then demanded to be driven to the Auckland night trots. We hadn?t been that keen on going to the trots, but when we dropped him there we figured we might as well stay for a couple of races. […] ’

   • 2008, J. D. Carpenter, Twelve Trees, Dundurn Press, Canada, page 24,

     I like both kinds of racing, thoroughbred and standardbred. Despite their lower social status, I like betting the trots just as much as I do the flats.

   • 2008, Drake Hokanson, Carol Kratz, Purebred & Homegrown: America?s County Fairs, Terrace Books, US, page 45,

     “ […] It is a fact that thousands come, pay their fee, and go straight to the amphitheater to see the trots, without whose fees premiums could not be paid to other classes.”

   • 2011, Mike Walsh, 8: From Hollywood to the Garden Suburb (and Back to Hollywood): Exhibition and Distribution in Australia, Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst, Philippe Meers, Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies, Wiley, page 164,

     The introduction of harness racing on Saturday nights at nearby Wayville in 1934 caused serious consequences for the rest of the 1930s as ‘the trots’ regularly attracted crowds of 20 000. When the trots began to offer free admission to children accompanying their parents, the state Exhibitors? Association, of which Thompson was then chair, tried to agitate against this on moral grounds.

Verb

trots

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trot

Anagrams

• Rotts, torts

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ts

Etymology 1

Early modern borrowing from German Trotz (“defiance”), from Middle High German traz, of unknown origin.

Noun

trots m (uncountable)

1. pride

   Synonyms: fierheid, fierte

Etymology 2

From the noun trots.

Adjective

trots (comparative trotser, superlative meest trots or trotst)

1. proud [+ op (object) = of]

   Synonym: fier

Inflection

Derived terms

• apetrots

Anagrams

• stort

French

Noun

trots m

1. plural of trot

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish tratz, from Middle Low German trotz, tratz, from Middle High German trotz, trutz, tratz. Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål tross, Norwegian Nynorsk trass, Danish trods, older forms trotz, tratz, German trotz.

Pronunciation

Preposition

trots

1. in spite of, despite (that)

Noun

trots n

1. defiance

Declension

Related terms

• trotsa
• trotsare
• trotshumör
• trotsig
• trotsighet
• trotsreaktion
• trotsålder

References

• trots in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• trots in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• rotts, stort

English

Noun

troths

1. plural of troth

Anagrams

• Shortt, thorts