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- verb Present participle of
hinny .
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Examples
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Sounds suggestive of the carrying upstairs of luggage followed, and a hinnying laugh echoed once down the stairs.
For the Sake of the School Angela Brazil 1907
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Their poor horses, like themselves, suffered both from thirst and hunger; and the mule Jeanette occasionally uttered a wild hinnying that was painful to hear.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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This exclamation was hardly uttered, when the mule Jeanette, hitherto lagging behind, sprang forward in a gallop, hinnying loudly as she ran.
The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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