Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dancing in a frolicsome manner; flighty.
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- adjective That
frolics .
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Examples
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Laura remembered Sammy as a caper-cutting barefoot boy with “fuzzy light curls all over his head that really ought to have belonged to a girl.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Laura remembered Sammy as a caper-cutting barefoot boy with “fuzzy light curls all over his head that really ought to have belonged to a girl.”
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough.
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It were sparrowlike and childish after our deliverance to explode into twittering laughter and caper-cutting, and utterly to forget the imminent hawk on bough.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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