capers

Meaning of capers

verb, 3rd person present
  1. skip or dance about in a lively or playful way.
    children were capering about the room
plural noun
  1. a playful skipping movement.
    she did a little caper or dance
  2. an illicit or ridiculous activity or escapade.
    I'm too old for this kind of caper

late 16th century: abbreviation of capriole.

plural noun
  1. the cooked and pickled flower bud of a prickly southern European shrub, used to flavour food.
    add capers and olives
  2. the shrub from which capers are taken.

late Middle English: from French câpres or Latin capparis, from Greek kapparis ; later interpreted as plural, hence the loss of the final -s in the 16th century.

Information about capers

  • The singular form of capers is: caper.
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Hyphenation of capers

ca-pers

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • capers is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

capers synonyms

Meaning move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce:

skip

Meaning (of a person) move in a quick and lively way:

dance

Meaning (especially of a child or animal) play roughly and energetically:

romp

Meaning dance a jig:

jig

Meaning skip or leap playfully; frolic:

frisk

Meaning run or jump about playfully:

gambol

Meaning jump or dance around excitedly:

cavort

Meaning (of a person) walk or move around with ostentatious, exaggerated movements:

prance

Meaning play or move about in a cheerful and lively way:

frolic

Meaning jump or spring a long way, to a great height, or with great force:

leap

Meaning (of a person) move by jumping on one foot:

hop

Meaning push oneself off a surface and into the air by using the muscles in one's legs and feet:

jump

Meaning walk or run with leaping strides:

bound

Meaning move or jump suddenly or rapidly upwards or forwards:

spring

Meaning (of a horse) perform a series of jumps on the hind legs:

curvet

Meaning act or behave in a jovial and exuberant fashion:

rollick

Meaning a movement performed in classical riding, in which the horse leaps from the ground and kicks out with its hind legs:

capriole

Meaning a leap or bound, especially an exaggerated one:

gambado, gambade

Meaning an act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure:

escapade

Meaning prevent from growing or developing properly:

stunt

Meaning a practical joke or mischievous act:

prank

Meaning a mischievous practical joke:

trick

Meaning foolish, outrageous, or amusing behaviour:

antics

Meaning playful misbehaviour, especially on the part of children:

mischief

Meaning an activity that one engages in for amusement or fun:

game

Meaning an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment:

sport

Meaning enjoyment, amusement, or light-hearted pleasure:

fun

Meaning a thing said or done for amusement; a joke:

jest

Meaning the action of saying or doing something for amusement:

jesting

Meaning a practical joke:

jape

Meaning secret or dishonest activity or manoeuvring:

shenanigans

Meaning a small ground-dwelling songbird with elongated hind claws and a song that is delivered on the wing, typically crested and with brown streaky plumage:

lark

Meaning pass time by playing tricks or practical jokes; indulge in horseplay:

skylarking

Meaning a mischievous trick or prank:

dido

Anagrams of capers

Casper, casper, crapes, escarp, pacers, parsec, praesc, recaps, scarpe, scrape, secpar, spacer

Words that rhyme with capers

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