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cavort [ kuh -vawrt ] SHOW IPA
/ kÉĖvÉrt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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verb (used without object)
to prance or caper about.
to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner; have a lively good time; revel .
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Origin of cavort 1785ā95,
Americanism ; earlier
cavault, perhaps
cur(vet) +
vault2
OTHER WORDS FROM cavort caĀ·vortĀ·er, noun
Words nearby cavort cavity block ,
cavity resonator ,
cavity wall ,
cavolo nero ,
cavo-relievo ,
cavort ,
Cavour ,
cavy ,
caw ,
Cawdrey ,
Cawley
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Words related to cavort fool around ,
gambol ,
romp ,
caper ,
caracole ,
dance ,
frisk ,
play ,
revel ,
rollick ,
roughhouse ,
sport ,
carry on ,
cut loose ,
cut up ,
horse around ,
horseplay ,
monkey around
How to use cavort in a sentence In the 1910s, British author Arthur Conan Doyle was famously deceived by two school-aged sisters who had produced photographs of elegant fairies cavort ing in their garden.
On September 8, a throng of fans cavort ed around the stage as the heavy metal band Pentakill performed live.
The night before she left for the trail, Diggins cavort ed in her urban backyard, yipping so loudly a neighbor called the Duluth police, afraid a wild animal had invaded the neighborhood.
If you ever thought grown men cavort ing with women dressed as bunnies was infantile, well, then, I suppose it makes sense that a childrenās author would want to make his home in the Playboy Mansion.
āA Bright Ray of Darknessā opens during a storm of negative media coverage that erupts when the young heartthrob William Harding is spotted cavort ing with a woman ā not his rock star wife ā in Cape Town, South Africa.
The complaint further alleges that Glock had a personal slush fund that he used to ācavort with women around the world.ā
But watching him cavort with Johnny Damon brought something to mind.
Wild monkeys cavort next to a small cemetery filled with gray gravestones.
It has a bathing beach where the gals show what they've got and fat men flounder and cavort far beyond their capacities.
I admit that it was a beautiful sight to see them cavort around that ploughed field.
Then a second and a third stallion, and all the stallions, begin to cavort on their forelegs over the precipitous landscape.
The ole he catfish had a fine eye for purty women, and used to cavort around near the cabin whenever his business would permit.
It was one of those voices that fairly cavort over big distances, and I buried my head in the shell as the pair came closer.
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British Dictionary definitions for cavort
Derived forms of cavort cavorter , noun Word Origin for cavort C19: perhaps from curvet
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