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
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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