1. TRAIPSE, TRAPES, N.
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colloq. and dial.

    1. An opprobrious name for a woman or girl slovenly in person or
habits; `a dangling slattern'.

    2. An act or course of `traipsing'; a tiresome or disagreeable
tramp.

2. TRAIPSE, TRAPES, V.
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colloq.

    1. a. intr. To walk in a trailing or untidy way; e.g. to walk or `trail'
through the mud; to walk with the dress trailing or bedraggled; to walk
about aimlessly or needlessly. (Usually said of a woman or child.) Also
in gen. use, to tramp or trudge, to go about.

    b. To trail along the ground; to hang untidily.

    2. a. trans. To walk or tramp over; to tread, tramp (the fields,
streets, etc.). dial.

    b. To tread (a dance) in a trailing way. rare.

    c. Causatively: to carry or take about in a trailing way.

    Hence traipsed ppl. a., trampled, bedraggled.