Definitions
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- v. present participle of nicker.
Examples
“There was nickering and bird sounds and a noise like a giant burp.”
“Dick listened to all the whinnying and nickering and bawling of sex, and sighed aloud:”
“And most of all I remember a great, hairy - fetlocked stallion, often led dancing, sidling, and nickering down the narrow street.”
“Dick filled the room and shook the air with wild, glad, stallion nickering; and then, with mane-tossing and foot-pawing, chanted:”
“From time to time, playing stickball in the street, we could hear him nickering in the yard.”
“Rune shoved his head against her, nickering concern.”
“Bunching his haunches, he clambered eagerly up the rocky incline, nickering between grunts.”
“She keeps nickering across the divide, waiting for the proper reply.”
“From below came the good smell of clean straw and horses, and the sound of their soft nickering, their heavy hooves.”
“The only sound was the nervous nickering and blowing of horses in the stables.”
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes
Words I had to look up, or I liked, from Robert Louis Stevenson's travelogue 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes'.
pediment, drugget, raiment, scurrilous, stripling, distaff, calumniate, valise, stolid, appurtenance, spencer, vaticination and 42 more...
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