v. U.S. slang. ? Obs. Also trambooze, -pouse, -pouss(e. [app. a capricious extension of TRAMP v.1: cf. vamoose, vampoose.] intr. To tramp, trudge.
1798. O’Keeffe, Wild Oats, II. iii. I’d teach ’em to bring a gentleman’s son tramboozing about the country.
a. 1818. D. Humphreys, Yankee in Eng. (Bartlett). Some years ago I landed near to Dover, And seed strange sights, trampoosing England over.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XVI. 566. Mr. Moore was ‘trampoosing’ over America.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, I. 177. Trampoosing about all night.
1829. Kentucky Reporter, 2 Dec., 1/2. The Judges [etc.] … were seen trampoosing the whole State, calling upon the People to attend barbacues and frolics of all kinds for the purpose of qualifying the voters to exercise the great elective franchise to the best advantage.
1850. Porter, Tales of South & West, 44 (Bartlett). We trampoused along down the edge of the swamp.
So Trampoose sb. rare, a tramp, a trudge.
1840. J. F. Cooper, Pathfinder, viii. I was with him in one of his trampooses.
