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Feb 21, 2020
This week’s themeOnomatopoeic words
This week’s words
faff
scroop
fanfaronade
jape
whicker
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PRONUNCIATION:
(HWIK-uhr, WIK-) 
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To neigh.
2. To laugh in a half-suppressed manner.
1. To neigh.
2. To laugh in a half-suppressed manner.
ETYMOLOGY:
Of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1656.
USAGE:
“She whickered, that soft, chortlelike noise that passed for a laugh among her people.”
Steve Perry; The Vastalimi Gambit; Penguin; 2013.
See more usage examples of whicker in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
Steve Perry; The Vastalimi Gambit; Penguin; 2013.
See more usage examples of whicker in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
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