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plural whinnies
A gentle neigh. quotations examples
And moving out they found the stately horse, / Who now no more a vassal to the thief, / But free to stretch his limbs in lawful fight, / Neigh'd with all gladness as they came, and stoop'd / With a low whinny toward the pair: […]
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], pages 85–86
third-person singular simple present whinnies, present participle whinnying, simple past and past participle whinnied
(transitive, intransitive, of a horse) To make a gentle neigh. quotations examples
Cattle lowed here and there, and horses whinnied to be fed.
1904 May, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., book I (The Borderland), page 240
A pony whinnied a short distance from the hut.
1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XIII, in The Mucker, All-Story Cavalier Weekly
[John Gray] whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm[.]
2014 January 28, Will Self, “John Gray: Forget everything you know”, in Independent, retrieved March 3, 2021