The word "whicker" is correct in written English.
It is used to describe the soft, low sound made by a horse, often when it is expressing contentment or calling to another horse. Example: "The horse let out a gentle whicker as it approached its owner." Alternatives include "neigh" or "whinny."
A sound came from my throat, a worried noise, a whicker of anxiety — Heh-heh.
"I think it's time to have an antidote to fame – I just want to do normal people again," says Gervais, who nevertheless persuaded his old friend and acolyte, Karl Pilkington, fresh from his success as a kind of anti-Alan Whicker in Sky1's An Idiot Abroad, to don a comedy wig and make his acting debut, playing caretaker Dougie (a bemused northerner, so no great stretch there).
Whicker, Palin's predecessor as doyen of the travel documentary (and a figure mercilessly parodied by Monty Python) explored the world much like a Home Counties bank manager who was vaguely perplexed to encounter indigenous peoples whose costumes would radically contravene the dress code at his local golf club.
The thyroid is such an iodine magnet that Dr. Whicker recounts that a week after a nuclear weapons test in China, iodine 131 could be detected in the thyroid glands of deer in Colorado, although it could not be detected in the air or in nearby vegetation.
"There is an extremely complex interaction between the type of radionuclide and the weather and the type of vegetation," Dr. Whicker said.
Whicker, after serving as a captain in the Devonshire regiment during the second world war, was seconded to the army film and photographic unit, before he became a war correspondent, reporting on the Korean war.
Pegler had no illusions about his host — Dr. Hargis could "whinny-whicker like a country auctioneer selling out a widow on the lawn a week after Paw's funeral".
Hargis could "whinny-whicker like a country auctioneer selling out a widow on the lawn a week after Paw's funeral".
Festival Theatre, 4-5 SePythonesquehonesque The real lives of the creators of 'Life of Brian', dead parrots, Whicker Island and Hell's Grannies, by the playwright Roy Smiles.
Mark Whicker of the Washington Post summed up the disappointment felt at the behaviour of the American players: "It seems an American team can't get through an international competition without acting like jackasses at some point, and Steve Pate and Tom Lehman led a ridiculous charge to mob Leonard.
He told the Radio Times that broadcasters Sir David Frost and Alan Whicker, who both died recently, were his "inspirational heroes".
