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Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 10, 2009
disport \dis-PORT\, intransitive verb:
1. To amuse oneself in light or lively manner; to frolic.
2. To divert or amuse.
3. To display.
If you confine the kids' drinking to the college area, they will
disport there and lessen the problem of the drunken car ride coming back from
the out-of-town bar.
-- William F. Buckley Jr., "Let's Drink to It", National Review,
February 27, 2001
I had to laugh, picturing Stuart and me in a red enamel tub, disporting
ourselves among the suds.
-- Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Most Wanted
Few of the "carriage ladies and gentlemen" who disport themselves in
Newport during the summer months, yachting and dancing through the short
season, then flitting away to fresh fields and pastures new, realize that their
daintily shod feet have been treading historic ground, or care to cast a
thought back to the past.
-- Eliot Gregory, Worldly Ways and Byways
. . .those dolphins and narwhals who disport themselves upon the edges
of old maps.
-- Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Disport derives from Old French desporter, "to divert," from des-,
"apart" (from Latin dis-) + porter, "to carry" (from Latin portare) -- hence to
disport is at root "to carry apart, or away" (from business or seriousness).
Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for disport
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