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neighing

verbnounattested in dialogue

The sound made by a horse: an act or instance of the verb neigh.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of neighpresent participle and gerund of neigh

noun

  1. 1

    The sound made by a horse: an act or instance of the verb neigh.

    And when the earth beneath his tameless tread, Shook with the sullen thunder, he would spread His nostrils to the blast, and joyously Mock the fierce peal with neighings; […]

    During the night a neighing of horses was heard, and when day broke, they found these three animals had joined those belonging to our party.

    Old pigtailed seamen would tell of horseshoes found in the meat casks; of curious barkings and neighings heard in the slaughter-houses; and of negroes who disappeared near the victualling yards, to be seen no more.

Forms

plural
neighings
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).