Crossword clues for neigh
neigh
- Stable utterance
- Stable negative?
- Sound heard at the track
- Nag's outburst
- Mister Ed's "no" vote?
- Horse laugh?
- Horse laugh
- Filly's sound
- Equine exclamation
- Cry of a horse
- Corral call
- What might be said in a horse voice?
- Trigger sound
- Track sound
- Steed's sound
- Stable outburst
- Stable cry
- Speak in a horse voice
- Sound that aptly rhymes with "hay"
- Sound of horse
- Sound by the bay
- Skeptical sound at Belmont?
- Silver sound?
- Secretariat utterance?
- Roan remark
- Pasture comment
- Nag's noise
- Nag's comment?
- Mustang sally?
- It may mean, "Hay, please!"
- Horse's mouthful?
- Horse's hello
- Horse's greeting
- Horse's disapproving vote?
- Horse's comment
- Horse's call
- Horse utterance
- Horse noise
- Horse call
- Filly's call
- Equine noise
- Common Arabian utterance
- Comment from Mr. Ed
- Call from a stall
- Arab's cry
- [Please feed me hay]
- (Hey, I want hay!)
- Dobbin's vote?
- Corral sound
- "No" vote from a horse?
- Arab's greeting
- [I'd like some oats over here...!]
- Ask for hay, say?
- Whinny
- Stall call
- Sound at 44-Across, maybe
- Stable sound
- Trigger-happy sound?
- Speak horsely?
- Sound from a stable
- Nag's call
- Greeting to a rider, maybe
- Derby sound
- The sound made by a horse
- Horse cry
- Paddock sound
- Dobbin's negative?
- Equine negative?
- Sound like Dobbin
- Stable talk
- Dobbin's denial?
- We hear no sound from a horse
- Number - number reduced by 20% - gets comment on farm
- Horse's whinny
- Horse’s cry
- Horse sound
- Refusal reportedly straight from the horse's mouth?
- Beastly sound nearby — escape finally inside
- Hearing no noise coming from The Nag's Head?
- Heard no horses do this
- Barnyard sound
- Sound on Old MacDonald's farm
- It comes straight from the horse's mouth
- Pastoral sound
- Bay sound
- Horse's sound
- Equine comment
- Horse's cry
- Equine sound
- Sound from a horse
- Sound from a bay
- Stall sound
- Sound by the bay?
- Horsy sound
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neigh \Neigh\ (n[=a]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Neighed (n[=a]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Neighing.] [OE. neien, AS. hn[=ae]gan, prob. of imitative origin; cf. MHG. n[=e]gen, Icel. hneggja, gneggja, Sw. gn["a]gga. Cf. Nag a horse.]
To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.
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To scoff or sneer; to jeer. [Obs.]
Neighed at his nakedness.
--Beau. & Fl.
Neigh \Neigh\, n. The cry of a horse; a whinny.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hnægan "to neigh," probably of imitative origin (compare Old Norse gneggja, Middle High German negen, French hennir, Japanese inanaki). Related: Neighed; neighing. As a noun from 1510s.
Wiktionary
n. The cry of a horse. vb. 1 (context of a horse English) to make its cry 2 to make a sound similar to a horses' cry 3 (context obsolete English) To scoff or sneer.
WordNet
Usage examples of "neigh".
The sun felt good on his back and he knew the red colt liked it too, for Bonfire neighed repeatedly while Tom jogged him the wrong way around the track, loosening him up.
He landed hard on dungy straw, amidst a f1ock of goats that whickered and neighed.
Plough-men with bare arms were holding by the halter prancing stallions that neighed with dilated nostrils looking towards the mares.
Black neighed softly as Henry, Alec, Tony and the policeman approached the stall.
Napoleon stuck his head over the stall door and neighed at sight of Tony, who hung back.
Black neighed softly when he saw him, and Alec had no trouble getting him up the ramp into the truck.
The stallion turned his head toward him, his ears pricked forward and he neighed softly.
Old Napoleon neighed plaintively as Henry kept him from following the Black out on the track.
Lifting his head, the stallion neighed, then went back to his grazing.
They scattered when Flame neighed shrilly, and Steve laughed as they pushed hard against each other in their wild efforts to get out of the path of their running leader.
The colt neighed repeatedly from the other side of the gate, furious at being left behind.
She neighed repeatedly and sought to keep her head above the stalks as she neared the cropped grass of the valley floor and Tom.
Only when the colt neighed again did he finally turn away to look toward the canyon.
One of the mares neighed loudly and the sound was echoed by the whinnies of the others.
The Piebald had neighed repeatedly, and the mares had slowly broken their tight ring.