neigh

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I prefer the latter because then you have to restrain yourself in case you wake up the 'hole neighbourhood -- neigh, NEIGH!

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

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  • Not like a neigh, or a whinny, or any of the sounds horses make, but like one person talking to another. —  FSF,October2005
  • While both you and me are imagining a film about horses who wear gun hats and every time they neigh, the gun hats shoot bullets, and we win WWII and the human kid, Danny, finally gets to kiss the cute French girl who helped them because she knows a lot about horses like how to click at them and how to fix gun hats, unfortunately we are both mistaken. —  Gawker: Defamer
  • I prefer the latter because then you have to restrain yourself in case you wake up the 'hole neighbourhood -- neigh, NEIGH! —  SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
  • The answer which came to mind was to call your neigh-brrr. —  BBC Blog Network
  • Horses neigh, as if to say they are all ready for their breakfasts; but the door locked. —  Jacob Faithful
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  1. From Middle English neighen, to neigh, from Old English hnǣgan, probably of imitative origin.

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  1. Early modern English also ney, neie, dial. also nie, nye, nee; from Middle English neighen, neyen, neʒen, from Anglo-Saxon hnǣgan = Middle Dutch neyen = Middle Low German neigen = Middle High German negen = Icelandic gnegga, hneggja, gneggja = Swedish gnägga = Danish gnægge, neigh: supposed to be imitative; it may be so, remotely, like the equivalent hinny, whinny.
  2. from neigh, v.
 

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