Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To bound or prance about in a sprightly manner; caper.
- intransitive verb To have lively or boisterous fun; romp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To curvet; prance about: said of a horse.
- To bustle about nimbly or eagerly: said of a person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Local slang, U. S. To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
prance , said ofmounts - verb intransitive To
move aboutcarelessly ,playfully orboisterously .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb play boisterously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We don't "cavort" a whole lot, but we do play hard and we don't stay home just because it's wet out.
Ain't nothin' like the real thing, baby (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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But I think part of the way he did that was, as David mentioned, these were not the typical celebrity spoiled kids who are allowed to go - allowed to kind of cavort and go out and do whatever they want.
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While gazing at the industrious insects, novelty-toy entrepreneur Milton Levine was transported back to childhood and his uncle's farm, where he collected ants in jars and watched them "cavort," Mr. Levine told the Los Angeles Times in 2002.
The Seattle Times 2011
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If you "cavort" on a beach without your top, you are "cavorting" without your BRAINS.
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With a quick cavort he regained his seat and proceeded to fight with the mare for control.
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At the foot of the cliffs, several species of dolphin cavort in the waves, regularly spotted by visitors from small boats.
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At the foot of the cliffs, several species of dolphin cavort in the waves, regularly spotted by visitors from small boats.
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A paper moon is bowled gently around the stage; big shadows cavort on the walls.
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Her bold hands coax the thread through white cotton, relinquishing a fragment of the kaleidoscopic hues within her soul to cavort freely across the snowy landscape.
A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes 2009
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The ears listen too, as this body starts to stretch and cavort, gracefully as possible on the uneven surface, then freezes in the beginnings of a movement.
Slice of Lifeforce Tantra Bensko 2011
mnordenhake commented on the word cavort
Then I heard my dream was back downstream cavortin' in Davenport,
And I followed you, Big River, when you called.
(Johnny Cash: Big River)
April 16, 2010