Definitions for "Trochee"
A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.
A foot (pair of syllables) containing a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one. A trochee is the reverse of an iamb. The word " scoring" is a trochee.
a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one ("Homer").