Green’s Dictionary of Slang

trapes n.

also traipse, trapse
[trapes v.]

1. a slatternly woman.

[UK]C. Cotton Scoffer Scoff’d (1765) 274: I had not car’d, / If Pallas here had been preferr’d; / But to bestow it on that Trapes, / It mads me.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Trapes, a dangling Slattern.
[UK]‘Phoebe Crackenthorpe’ Female Tatler (1992) (10) 19: He mimick’d and ridicul’d all the quality in the kingdom; this lady was a trapes, t’other a puss.
J. Gay What-d’-ye-call-it I i: From door to door I’d sooner whine and beg [...] Than marry such a trapes.
[UK]J. Gay Beggar’s Opera III v: To Mrs. Diana Trapes, the Tally-Woman and she will make a good Hand on’t in Shoes and Slippers, to trick out young Ladies, upon their going into Keeping.
[UK]Ladies Delight 28: The Dunghill Trapes, trickt up like virtuous Trull.
[UK]E. Gayton Festivous Notes I vii 51: For a man of his expectations to be depressed with such a trapes, was an intollerable circumstance.
[UK]Correct List of the Sporting Ladies [broadsheet] diana trapes, in Pease-porrage lane [...] will not be on the Course this Year [...] Please to enquire for Miss Tickleback.
[UK]W. Perry Only Sure Guide 180: Traipes, an idle nasty woman.
Mrs Palmer Devonshire Courtship 14: It wan’t vor want o’ a good will, the litter-legg’d trapes hadn’t a’ blowed a coal between you and me [F&H].
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Eve. Mail (London) 20 Nov. 4/4: The simple pair, Jenny Diver and Sukey Tawdry, appeared as [...] Mistress Diana Trapes, Mistress Mary Brazen, Mistress Slammerkin.
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.
[UK]G.F. Northall Warwickshire Word-Book 249: Trapes [...] (2) A slattern.

2. a tedious, laborious task.

E.K. Wood Channings 471: It’s such a toil and a trapes up them two pair of stairs [F&H].

In derivatives

trapish (adj.)

slovenly, aimless, dawdling.

[Ire]N. Rowe Biter in Dramatic Works (1720) II.i: A Couple of the trapishest Creatures I ever saw in Masks .
[UK]Poetry in Annual Register 208: Now monstrous in hoop, now trapish, and walking With your petticoats clung to your knees, like a maulkin .