cavort [ kuh -vawrt ] SHOW IPA
/ kəˈvɔrt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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 1785–95,
Americanism ; earlier
cavault, perhaps
cur(vet) +
vault2
OTHER WORDS FROM cavort ca·vort·er, noun
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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 No pictures of him cavort ing naked in hotel rooms have yet been received by the Royalist.
Difference is, when her brother finds snapshots of Nadia cavort ing on a Spanish beach, the honor of the family is compromised.
Has the kind of cavort ing the Secret Service engaged in while in Colombia ever happened before?
The novel, about a young debutante cavort ing in New York City in the summer of 1945, was finally published in 2005.
Not cavort ing inconsequentially between consequential legislative votes and consequential congressional committee meetings.
I'd admire to see him cavort ing around on the pinnacles after horse-thieves or whisky-runners or a bunch of bad Indians.
And he didn't even feel tired, in spite of all the dancing and cavort ing he had gone in for.
But we got together on a compromise at last, and now hes in uniform again and cavort ing around like a two-year-old.
Hop got him then; but the damage was done, and the visitors lining the gridiron were cheering and 194 cavort ing wildly.
When they reached the old honeybee tree, they saw Slab cavort ing down to meet them.
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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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