outcaper

English

Etymology

out- +‎ caper

Verb

outcaper (third-person singular simple present outcapers, present participle outcapering, simple past and past participle outcapered)

1. (transitive) To surpass in capering.
   • 1884, Katharine Harris Bradley, Edith Emma Cooper, Callirhöe and Fair Rosamund:

     The little fool
     Tries to outcaper his own shadow.

   • 1919, Katharine Lee Bates, Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road:

     As he took his prolonged siesta, she would frisk about him, biting first one ear and then the other, till at last he would rise in magnificent menace and go chasing after her, his middle-aged dignity melting from him in the fun of the frolic, till his antics outcapered her own.