Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To whinny.
- noun A whinny.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To neigh; whinny; bleat.
- To giggle; snigger.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The soft
neigh made by a horse. - verb Of a
horse , toneigh softly, to make a breathywhinny .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a characteristic sound, of a horse
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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I wish you could hear Bonfire's "whicker" to me in the stable or elsewhere.
In Flanders Fields and Other Poems John McCrae 1895
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It snorted loudly, then its sides heaved in a questioning whicker.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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It snorted loudly, then its sides heaved in a questioning whicker.
Western Man Janet Dailey 2011
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She was irrationally pleased when Sunset greeted her with a friendly whicker and trotted up to her before she presented him with the apple.
red dust Ryn Cricket 2010
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Beyond the sound of bird song rose the whicker of a horse.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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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 The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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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... 2009
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My dreams for the future involve teaching in Florence and riding my bicycle with Simon the kitten riding in its whicker basket.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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My dreams for the future involve teaching in Florence and riding my bicycle with Simon the kitten riding in its whicker basket.
for your perusal: 2008
bilby commented on the word whicker
"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.
December 31, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word whicker
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
July 10, 2008