Whinny

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A gentle neigh.
  • verb. To make a gentle neigh.
    • 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
    • Word Usage
    "But there was no movement about the fire, and another whinny was the only sound that came from its direction."
    Form
    whinnied  whinnying  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cry  emit  let loose  let out  utter  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bellow  bleat  cackle  chirp  chirrup  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bark  bawl  bay  bell  bellow  
    variant
    whinnied  
    verb-form
    whinnied  whinnies  whinnying  
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