plural nickers
Examples of nicker in a Sentence
Verb
horses nickering in the barn
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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
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Verb
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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“Nicker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nicker. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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