Definition of Cavorting

1. Verb. (present participle of cavort) ¹

2. Noun. The action of the verb ''to cavort'' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cavorting

1. cavort [v] - See also: cavort

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavorting

cavo-atrial junctions
cavo-rilievo
cavoatrial
cavoatrial junction
cavoatrial junctions
cavogram
cavography
cavoite
cavopulmonary anastomosis
cavopulmonary shunt
cavorite
cavort
cavorted
cavorter
cavorters
cavorting
cavortings
cavorts
cavosurface
cavosurface angle
cavosurface bevel
cavum
cavum abdominis
cavum articulare
cavum conchae
cavum coronale
cavum dentis
cavum douglasi
cavum epidurale
cavum infraglotticum

Literary usage of Cavorting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1854 Wiggins was " cavorting in the upper regions," as Turtle called it. ... 1869 [The Bedouins] were cavorting around oil old ..."

2. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"If we had'nt been Cavorting round this yer spot for the last half-hour I'd swear there ... Being an educated man, I feel ten thousand woes Cavorting for the ..."

3. Moments with Mark Twain by Mark Twain, Albert Bigelow Paine (1920)
"There was four or five men cavorting around on their horses in the open place before the log store, ... By and by the men stopped cavorting around ..."

4. The Indiana School Journal by Indiana State Teachers Association (1890)
"And he barks with such terrible zest 1. That good little children have only to eat 3. And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around 4. ..."

5. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"He jumped down behind a wood-pile, but they rode around and begun on him, he firing back, and they galloping and cavorting and yelling and banging away with ..."

6. The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1884)
"... and what frozen continents of ice cream there are; and what a time we are having cavorting about the country and sailing to the islands in the Bay. ..."

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