cavort
\kuh-VAWRT\
verb
1. to prance or caper about.
2. to behave in a high-spirited, festive manner; make merry.
Quotes
He can cavort with winning intensity, address the audience as if taking it into his confidence, then dance and sing alone as if we’re viewing his private thoughts.
-- Alastair Macaulay, "Robert Fairchild and Tony Yazbeck Have It All on Broadway Stages," New York Times, May 6, 2015
Origin
Cavort came to English in the late 1700s and possibly derives from the word curvet, a word that describes the leap of a horse in dressage.
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