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neigh

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The long, high-pitched sound made by a horse.
  • intransitive verb To utter the characteristic sound of a horse; whinny.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of nigh.
  • noun The cry of a horse; a whinnying.
  • To utter the cry of a horse; whinny.
  • To scoff; sneer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The cry of a horse; a whinny.
  • intransitive verb To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To scoff or sneer; to jeer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The cry of a horse.
  • verb of a horse to make its cry
  • verb to make a sound similar to a horses' cry

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

[From Middle English neighen, to neigh, from Old English hnǣgan, probably of imitative origin.]

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synonyms (47)

Words with the same meaning

  1. bark
  2. bawl
  3. bay
  4. bell
  5. bellow
  6. blare
  7. blat
  8. blate
  9. bleat
  10. bray
  11. call
  12. caterwaul
  13. cry
  14. give tongue
  15. give voice
  16. hinny
  17. howl
  18. jeer
  19. low
  20. meow
  21. mew
  22. mewl
  23. miaow
  24. moo
  25. nicher
  26. nicker
  27. pule
  28. roar
  29. screak
  30. scream
  31. screech
  32. squall
  33. squeak
  34. squeal
  35. troat
  36. ululate
  37. wail
  38. whicker
  39. whine
  40. whinner
  41. whinny
  42. yap
  43. yawl
  44. yawp
  45. yelp
  46. yip
  47. yowl

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. cry
  2. emit
  3. let loose
  4. let out
  5. utter

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. bellow
  2. blare
  3. bleat
  4. bugle-call
  5. cackle
  6. catcall
  7. caw
  8. clank
  9. guffaw
  10. hurrah
  11. huskiness
  12. neighing
  13. nicker
  14. peal
  15. snort
  16. squawking
  17. trample
  18. ululation
  19. war-whoop
  20. whinny
  21. whoop
  22. yelp
  23. yip

forms (3)

Forms

  1. neighed
  2. neighing
  3. neighs

cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. nicker
  2. whinny

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  • bilby commented on the word neigh

    "'No,' she laughed. How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say 'No' at the same time, it sounds like neighing -- yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up."

    -- Hilaire Belloc, 'On People in Books,' 1910.

    December 24, 2012