Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To whinny.
- n. A whinny.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. make a characteristic sound, of a horse
- n. the characteristic sounds made by a horse
Etymologies
- Imitative.
Examples
“Mike's face is exactly like the terrier in the old picture, and he sits up and gives his paw just like Bonneau, and I never saw him have any instruction; and as for voice, I wish you could hear Bonfire's "whicker" to me in the stable or elsewhere.”
“I wish you could hear Bonfire's "whicker" to me in the stable or elsewhere.”
“It snorted loudly, then its sides heaved in a questioning whicker.”
“She was irrationally pleased when Sunset greeted her with a friendly whicker and trotted up to her before she presented him with the apple.”
“Beyond the sound of bird song rose the whicker of a horse.”
“It was a devils 'anthem, glorifying hellishness -- suggestive of the gnashing of a million teeth, and the whicker of drawn blades -- more shuddersome and mean than the wind of a winter's night.”
“In which case, its either one hull and a pretense to air-cover or no royal navy air cover at all. criss whicker”
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
“My dreams for the future involve teaching in Florence and riding my bicycle with Simon the kitten riding in its whicker basket.”
“Eric patted her gently on the gas-tank, and heard a ghostly whicker of amusement inside his mind.”
Beyond World's End
“When he woke, it was to a cheerful whicker outside his window and a: Come on, lazy one, you can't lie abed forever!”
Brightly Burning
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Sounds
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tintinnabulous, susurration, ululation, pandemonium, keening, tinkle, clang, caterwaul, twangle, twank, din, rumble and 34 more...
qroqqa v. neigh; bleat; snigger, titter
Albright tossed all night and moaned and whinkered – a verb she made up herself out of 'whinny' and 'whicker' – and in the morning his temperature had not gone down.
—James Thurber, 1952, 'Daguerreotype of a Lady', in The Thurber Album Jul 10, 2008
bilby "The naked blade, pale silver in the day's hazy light, whickered through the air again, and this time it went where it was supposed to go. Eddings sank to his knees, hands between his legs."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007