nicker

as in to whinny
to make the cry typical of a horse horses nickering in the barn

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Recent Examples of nicker The soldiers muttered encouragement; their horses nickered. Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025 The soldiers muttered encouragement; their horses nickered. 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
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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
  • That doesn’t include food for the horses, who start whinnying.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
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  • Across from them in their usual stalls stood the eight neighing horses.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • 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 2 May. 2025.

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