Find the word definition

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caperer

Caperer \Ca"per*er\, n. One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.

The nimble caperer on the cord.
--Dryden.

Wiktionary
caperer

n. One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances.

Usage examples of "caperer".

The Emperor was a clown-masked caperer through jests and stories, a player of practical jokes, the proverbial father of the wretched and the unlucky.

He had no hair, not even eyebrows or lashes, which made him look far more naked than the various nude and seminude caperers reeling about in our vicinity.

Unswerving and obedient to the foul legate's orders, that hellish bird plunged onward through shoals of shapeless lurkers and caperers in darkness, and vacuous herds of drifting entities that pawed and groped and groped and pawed.