Cavort Definition

kə-vôrt
cavorted, cavorting, cavorts
verb
cavorted, cavorting, cavorts
To leap about; prance or caper.
Webster's New World
To romp about happily; frolic.
Webster's New World

(originally intransitive) To prance, said of mounts.

Wiktionary

(intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

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Origin of Cavort

  • Originated in the United States in 1793, as cauvaut, applying to horses, probably from the colloquial intensifying prefix ca- + vault (“jump, leap”); later generalized. Early sources connect it to cavault, a term for a certain demeanor of horses.

    From Wiktionary

  • Possibly alteration of curvet

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Cavort Sentence Examples

  • This doesn't mean you cannot cavort around in a black-based sundress, but generally you don't want your appearance to look stiff and grim if you opt for darker colors.

  • This leaves them free to cavort in the moonlight and dance among the stars.Fairies and their like also have a place in the mystical hierarchy of Celtic lore.

  • Some seasons require the cast members to work a job while other seasons merely follow the cast members around as they cavort and party.

  • Watching happy dancers cavort in pairs around a club dance floor can give a person a hankering for some good old-fashioned Texas Two-Step dance lessons.

  • Boys will don skirts and stuff bras with Kleenex, girls will stipple pretend-whiskers and wear ridiculous baseball caps, and cavort and swagger down the halls.

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