noun
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The cry of a horse.
verb
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(of a horse) To make its cry.
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To make a sound similar to a horse's cry.
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To scoff or sneer.
Examples of neigh in a Sentence
On my way to my dreaded doom I heard a neigh.
With a wild neigh of terror the animal fell bodily into the pit, drawing the buggy and its occupants after him.
Their cry is peculiar, being something between the belling of a deer and the neigh of a horse.
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks!
The cab-horse was about to reply when suddenly he gave a start and a neigh of terror and stood trembling like a leaf.
The great Benedictine monastery of Black Monks was situated away from the city at Westminster, and it was the only monastic house subject to the rule of St Benedict in the neigh roofing tenements.
A little farther south enclosing the fertile plain of Aizu (Aizu-taira, as it is called) several important peaks are found, among them being lide-san (6332 ft.) Azuma-yama (7733 ft.), which, after a long interval of quiescence, has given many evidences of volcanic activity during recent years; Nasu-dake (6296 ft.), an active volcano; and Bandai-san (6037 ft.), A terrible interest attaches to the last-named mountain, for, after having remained quiet so long as to lull the inhabitants of the neigh.
He tried to cry out and was shocked to feel his ears twitch as he uttered a ringing neigh.
The name is an imitation of the shrill barking neigh of the animal, "oug-ga, oug-ga," the last syllable very much prolonged; it is also commonly applied to the bonnte-quagga, or Burchell's zebra (see Horse and Zebra) .
So, with a snort and a neigh and a whisk of his short tail he trotted off the roof into the air and at once began floating downward to the street.