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cavort

Pronunciation:  ku'vort

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 Definition: [v]  play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the palyroom"
 
 Synonyms: disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport
 
 See Also: play

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ca*vort"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Cavorted}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Cavorting}.]
To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
[Local slang, U. S.]

 
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 Related Terms: antic, bob, bounce, bound, caper, capriole, caracole, carry on, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, dance, dido, disport, falcade, flounce, fool around, frisk, frolic, gambade, gambado, gambol, horse around, horseplay, jump, jump about, leap, play, prance, ramp, rollick, romp, roughhouse, skip, sport, trip
 

 

 

 

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