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Cavort vs Jumping - What's the difference?

cavort | jumping |

As verbs the difference between cavort and jumping

is that cavort is (originally|intransitive) to prance, said of mounts while jumping is .

As an adjective jumping is

(colloquial) excellent, very fun.

As a noun jumping is

the act of performing a jump.

cavort

English

Verb

  • (originally) To prance, said of mounts
  • * 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
  • To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
  • * 1900 , ”:
    • And dragon-flies sported around and cavorted , / As poets say dragon-flies ought to do;
  • * 1911 , :
    • He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.

    Synonyms

    * (move about boisterously) romp, frolic, prance, caper

    See also

    * horse around

    References

    * * “ The Way We Live Now: 7-14-02: On Language; Cavort”, William Safire criticizes White House rhetorics who apparently use the word to mean consort, and discusses its possible origins.

    jumping

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (colloquial) excellent, very fun
  • * 1998 ,
    • When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo)
    And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of performing a jump.
  • * 1871 , John Tyndall, Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion (page 291)
    • When the tuning-fork is brought over a resonant jar or bottle, the beats may be heard and the jumpings seen by a thousand people at once.

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