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  • verb Present participle of nicker.

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Examples

  • Dick listened to all the whinnying and nickering and bawling of sex, and sighed aloud:

    CHAPTER XXX 2010

  • Dick filled the room and shook the air with wild, glad, stallion nickering; and then, with mane-tossing and foot-pawing, chanted:

    CHAPTER XXIII 2010

  • And most of all I remember a great, hairy - fetlocked stallion, often led dancing, sidling, and nickering down the narrow street.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • There was nickering and bird sounds and a noise like a giant burp.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • There was nickering and bird sounds and a noise like a giant burp.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • There was nickering and bird sounds and a noise like a giant burp.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • Rune shoved his head against her, nickering concern.

    Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010

  • Bunching his haunches, he clambered eagerly up the rocky incline, nickering between grunts.

    Raven Speak Diane Lee Wilson 2010

  • She keeps nickering across the divide, waiting for the proper reply.

    dream of night heather henson 2010

  • From time to time, playing stickball in the street, we could hear him nickering in the yard.

    Boys of Summer in Yonkers (Memoir Excerpt # 1) 2010

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