Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To neigh, as a horse, especially in a gentle tone.
- intransitive verb To express in a whinny.
- noun The sound made in whinnying; a neigh.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A bounding in whins or whin-bushes.
- A bounding in or resembling whinstone.
- To utter the cry of a horse; neigh.
- noun The act of whinnying; a neigh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.
- noun The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.
- adjective Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A gentle
neigh . - verb transitive, intransitive, of a horse To make a gentle neigh.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make a characteristic sound, of a horse
- noun the characteristic sounds made by a horse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But there was no movement about the fire, and another whinny was the only sound that came from its direction.
With Hoops of Steel Florence Finch Kelly 1898
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We felt compelled to look into this, and what we found was that the whinny is a complex call full of relevant social information.
TheHorse.com News 2009
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At the end of the last chorus - the last chorus, the band does something; the saxophonists do a fast kind of whinny trill.
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A mare, with her young foal, was grazing in an orchard on an American farm, when she was noticed to run at full speed from a distant part of the orchard, making a loud cry -- not like her usual voice, but a kind of unnatural "whinny," like a scream of distress.
Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) Various
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Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.
My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.
My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Hear her "whinny" when you pet her back or forehead, then feed her the carrot and hear her munch.
unknown title 2009
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Hear her "whinny" when you pet her back or forehead, then feed her the carrot and hear her munch.
unknown title 2009
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Hear her "whinny" when you pet her back or forehead, then feed her the carrot and hear her munch.
unknown title 2009
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Their common "whinny" sounds pretty much like a horse whinny.
unknown title 2009
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