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Curveting

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.

    "the curvetings of a horse"

  2. 2
    Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation. (of a person)

    "One humiliation had succeeded another—the false smiles of the market sellers, the curvetings and oglings of the barmaids with whom his father flirted, the compliments and encouraging words of his father's friends."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of curvet form-of, gerund, participle, present

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