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Recent Examples of nicker
The soldiers muttered encouragement; their horses nickered.
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Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Waffles, patient and unbothered as onlookers walked around and stopped to gaze, nickered as another horse on the other side of the massive stalls whinnied.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
Waffles, patient and unbothered as onlookers walked around and stopped to gaze, nickered as another horse on the other side of the massive stalls whinnied.
—James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nicker
Verb
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McCaffrey is whinnying as the workhorse.—
Brad Evans,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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The downy woodpecker also whinnies like a miniature horse throughout the breeding season.—
Sheryl De Vore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
Verb
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Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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The band joked about adding a neighing horse to the intro, and Rimes quickly inserted that sound from his plug-in collection.—
Tom Roland,
Billboard,
30 Jan. 2024
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“Nicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nicker. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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