curvetings

Noun

curveting (plural curvetings)

1. The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.
   • the curvetings of a horse
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.1916, James Joyce, chapter 2, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man