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Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 10, 2009disport \dis-PORT\, intransitive verb: 1. To amuse oneself in light or lively manner; to frolic. 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. I had to laugh, picturing Stuart and me in a red enamel tub, disporting ourselves among the suds. 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. . . .those dolphins and narwhals who disport themselves upon the edges of old maps. 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). | |||||||||
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