Other forms: capers
To caper is to skip and leap about playfully. Capering around, caper about, a joyful caper.
It suggests goat-like bounding, which is exactly where the word comes from, and it is used mostly of children, lambs and people who have had good news. As a noun, a caper is also a light-hearted adventure or a crime carried out with style: a jewel caper, the whole caper. And a caper is the pickled flower bud used in sauces — an entirely separate word. Note capers as slang for antics.
1verbcaperTo skip and leap about playfully.
“The lambs capered about in the spring sunshine.”
2nounlightA light-hearted adventure or stylish crime.
“The film is a light-hearted caper in which three old men rob a bank.”
caper is a playful leap or escapade.
CAPER → a CAPE
A child in a red cape leaps off the garden wall, over the flowers, back up the steps and round the tree twice before anyone can catch her.
hooks ontocape
The verb is a clipping of capriole, from Italian capriola, a leap, from Latin caper, a goat. The pickled bud is unrelated and comes through Greek kapparis, which is a coincidence of spelling only.
a clipping of capriole.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire