cavort
verb/kəˈvɔːt/
/kəˈvɔːrt/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they cavort | /kəˈvɔːt/ /kəˈvɔːrt/ |
| he / she / it cavorts | /kəˈvɔːts/ /kəˈvɔːrts/ |
| past simple cavorted | /kəˈvɔːtɪd/ /kəˈvɔːrtɪd/ |
| past participle cavorted | /kəˈvɔːtɪd/ /kəˈvɔːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form cavorting | /kəˈvɔːtɪŋ/ /kəˈvɔːrtɪŋ/ |
- + adv./prep. to jump or move around in a noisy, excited and often sexual way
- The photos showed her cavorting on the beach with her new lover.
Word Originlate 18th cent. (originally US): perhaps an alteration of curvet ‘to leap gracefully or energetically’.Want to learn more?
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