Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The bray of an ass or mule.
  • To bray, as an ass.

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

  • intransitive verb to bray in the manner of a donkey.
  • noun a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.

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

  • noun The cry of an ass or donkey.
  • noun Scotland, slang Nothing.
  • verb intransitive To utter the cry of an ass or donkey.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb braying characteristic of donkeys
  • noun a loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing

Etymologies

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Onomatopoeic coinage.

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