Etymology

traipse

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Today it means: To walk in a messy or unattractively casual way; to trail through dirt. Full definition →

French trépasser
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The story

  1. French · borrowed fromtrépasser“pass over or beyond”
  2. English todaytraipse

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.