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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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.”
“When he woke, it was to a cheerful whicker outside his window and a: Come on, lazy one, you can't lie abed forever!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘whicker’.
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AGRI - horse breeding
place bet, Przewalski's horse, piaffe, genus Claviceps, stadium jumping, draft animal, snaffle bit, noseband, equestrian sport, endurance riding, curb bit, dressage and 678 more...
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phrontistery-w
from phrontistery.info
wack, wadmal, waftage, wafture, wagonette, wagtail, wainage, wainscot, wair, waits, wakerife, waldflute and 282 more...
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Sounds
Shhh! Listen! Did you hear that?
tintinnabulous, susurration, ululation, pandemonium, keening, tinkle, clang, caterwaul, twangle, twank, din, rumble and 34 more...
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discoveries
These are lexical items new to me that I've discovered in actual use (i.e. not in dictionaries, lists, or this site).
Looking back over this list, I haven't the slightest idea what mos...haymow, hawsepipe, stridor, bariatric, autotelic, apotropaic, cyanotype, tourelle, autobody, zudecca, stifado, corbeille and 1073 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 234 more...
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Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
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micellaneous
hinky, heath, peat, cicatrix, lark, chateau, gapeseed, obstreperous, mixen, addax, syllogism, colligate and 100 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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The Other Side of Silence
A sound garden.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. --Walt Whitmantin cry, chark, gride, scroop, crepitation, stridulation, swazzle, death-ruckle, cronk, rumble, borborygmus, crowling and 165 more...
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urbanorama's Words
dicker, murgatroyd, wheedle, snicker, snuffle, whinge, swag-bellied, fulsome, sozzle, gilly-gaupus, invaginate, cuddy and 13 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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some of my favorites
flourish, oddment, persnickety, obfuscate, folly, moxie, flimflam, fisticuffs, whicker, sibilance, filch, succor and 76 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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Schlockie: The Dark Half
Words and citations from Stephen King's 'The Dark Half'.
golf lies, dimbulb, boneatorium, perp, yea, lit, moulage, crawdaddy, dumpatorium, bank-teller, exercise wheel, presque vu and 34 more...
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horseplay
Words related to mischief.
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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