This week’s theme
Onomatopoeic words

This week’s words
faff
scroop
fanfaronade
jape
whicker

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Adverbs

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PRONUNCIATION:

(HWIK-uhr, WIK-)

MEANING:

verb intr.:
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.

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