Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Dancing in a frolicsome manner; flighty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective That frolics.

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Examples

  • Laura remembered Sammy as a caper-cutting barefoot boy with “fuzzy light curls all over his head that really ought to have belonged to a girl.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Laura remembered Sammy as a caper-cutting barefoot boy with “fuzzy light curls all over his head that really ought to have belonged to a girl.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough.

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

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