Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England
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Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.
- (transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump.
- (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.
- (figuratively) (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.
- (figuratively) (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.
Substantiivi
- A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once.
- A prank; a frolic.
Esimerkit
- 1963, Firelily, under him, seemed sexually aroused, she curveted and frolicked so about the line of march, covering five miles to the prisoners’ one. — Thomas Pynchon, V.
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