Curvet

Definition: Curvet

Curvet

Noun

1. A light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down.

Verb

1. Perform a curvet, of a horse.

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Date "curvet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

Synonym: Curvet

Agitation

Verb: be agitated; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf; quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle, tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet, prance, cavort; squirm.

Circuition

Noun: circuition, circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation, circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit.

Evolution

Fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down; AdVerb: pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate; teeter.

Leap

Verb: leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole; foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk; (amusement); jump about; (agitation); trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.

Ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade, gambado; capriole, demivolt; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade.

Crosswords: Curvet

Bulgarian 

курвет, правя курбет. (various references)

Czech

vzpínat se (balk, jib, prance, rear up). (various references)

Farsi 

وجد (Ecstasy, Ploy), خوشی (Bliss, Cheer, Delight, Felicity, Gala, Glee, Gust, Hilarity, Jamboree, Jollification, Jollity, Joviality, Joy, Joyance, Lark, Mirth, Paradise, Pleasure, Ploy, Splurge, Spree), جست وخیز (Bound, Caper, Spring), شوخی (Bob, Fun, Game, Gig, Humor, Jape, Jest, Jink, Jocosity, Joke, Lark, Pleasantry, Prank, Quiz, Sport, Spree, Witticism), شادی (Caper, Gala, Glee, Joyance, Jubilation, Mirth). (various references)

French

courbette. (various references)

German

Bogensprung. (various references)

Greek 

πηδώ (bound, hop, hurdle, jump, leap, learn, skip, spring, vault), πήδημα ίππου (prance). (various references)

Hungarian

ívugrás, ívben ugrik. (various references)

Italian

falcata (lope). (various references)

Manx

lhiem kiare-chassagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

urvetcay

Portuguese

curvetear, curveta (prance, tittup). (various references)

Romanian

curbetã. (various references)

Russian 

курбет, делать курбет. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skok (bounce, bound, caper, hop, jump, leap, plunge, rally, rise, skip, spring, upturn), propinjanje (prance), propeti se (raise oneself, ramp). (various references)

Spanish

salto (bounce, capriole, dap, dive, diving, hop, jump, leap, pounce, skip). (various references)

Turkish

şaha kalkmak (ramp, rear up), şaha kalkma (rampancy, rearing up), şaha kalkarak sıçramak. (various references)

Ukrainian

стрибок (bounce, bound, caper, dive, gambade, gambado, gambol, hop, jump, leap, leaping, pounce, prance, saltation, skip, souse, spirt, spring, spurt), курбет (gambade, gambado). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nhảy ngược lên. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "curvet": curveted, curveting, curvets, curvetted, curvetting. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Curvet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cavret, corvent, culvet, curft, Curva, curvata, Curvex, curvey, curvit, curvo, cuvet. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cruet, curet, curve, cuter, eruct, recut, truce, vertu.

-2 letters: cure, curt, cute, ecru, true, vert.

-3 letters: cue, cur, cut, ecu, rec, ret, rev, rue, rut, vet.

-4 letters: er, et, re, ut.

+1 letter: culvert, curvets, cutover, overcut.

+2 letters: culverts, curative, curveted, curviest, cutovers, outcurve, overcuts.

+3 letters: coverture, curatives, curvature, curveting, curvetted, dustcover, incurvate, lucrative, outcurves, overcount, reductive, revictual, scurviest, victualer.

+4 letters: aviculture, circumvent, corruptive, covertures, curatively, curvatures, curvetting, dustcovers, incurvated, incurvates, overcounts, overstruck, productive, revictuals, surjective, ulcerative, uncreative, ventriculi, victualers, victualler, volumetric.

+5 letters: avicultures, circulative, circumvents, countermove, countervail, counterview, destructive, diverticula, equivocator, incurvature, instructive, involucrate, lubricative, lucratively, neuroactive, obstructive, overcaution, overcounted, overcutting, overeducate, persecutive, provocateur, recultivate, reductively, reeducative, revictualed, subcurative, subtractive, uncontrived, unconverted, underactive, unreceptive, vasculature, ventricular, ventriculus, vermiculate, vermiculite, victuallers, viniculture, viticulture, voyeuristic.