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▪ I. whinny, n.1|ˈhwɪnɪ|
[f. whinny v.]
An act of whinnying; a (low or gentle) neigh, or similar sound.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Whinny, the half neigh, half nigger, of a horse, mare, or colt. 1847Tennyson Princess v. 442 The gray mare Is ill to live with, when her whinny shrills From tile to scullery. 1870Meredith Let. to J. Morley 27 Jan., Out flaps the big girl with a whinny, Fire! Fire! 1871G. J. Whyte-Melville Sarchedon ii, A troop of wild asses standing at gaze for a moment, to disappear with snort and whinny. 1894Crockett Raiders xli, I set my hands to my mouth,..and made the whinny of the heatherbleat [= snipe] palpitate across the moor.
▪ II. ˈwhinny, n.2 rare.
[f. whin1, ? after spinney.]
A thicket of whins or furze-bushes.
1896Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 4/1 Portions of the common..retain the thick covering of gorse whinnies.
▪ III. whinny, a.1|ˈhwɪnɪ|
[f. whin1 + -y1.]
Covered or abounding with whins or furze-bushes.
1482–3Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 648 Circa manuram de le Whynnyclose. 1607Markham Cavel. vii. xxx. 49 Hay which growing in whinnie grounds is ful of sharp prickes and stumpes. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy IV. xxxi, The Oxmoor..was a fine, large, whinny, undrained, unimproved common. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. xliv, The whinny braes of his native land. 1826Galt Last of Lairds xxxv. 320 I've had a notion..that there's a mine o' copper ore aneath the whinny-knowes.
▪ IV. whinny, a.2|ˈhwɪnɪ|
[f. whin2 + -y1.]
Of the nature of or containing whin or whinstone.
1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. II. 6 The whinny and the argillaceous regularly stratified mountain rock.
▪ V. whinny, v.|ˈhwɪnɪ|
Forms: 6 whyn(n)ye, whiny, wynny, -ie, 7–9 whinney, 9 winny, 6– whinny.
[Imitative; cf. the earlier whine (14th cent.), whrinny (15th cent.), and L. hinnīre.]
1. intr. Of a horse: To neigh, esp. in a low or gentle way; also occasionally of other animals, as calves or certain birds, or of inanimate objects making a similar noise.
1530Palsgr. 781/1 My horse whynyeth cherfully this mornyng. Ibid. 782/2, I wynny, as a horse dothe. 1592? Greene Def. Conny Catch. (1859) 19 After an amorous weke or two, as old Jades wynnie when they cannot wagge the tayle. 1676Hobbes Iliad xii. (1686) 173 The Horses when upon the Brink they were, Boggl'd and whinny'd, and refus'd to pass. 1683Snape Anat. Horse ii. ix. (1686) 93 Does the horse neigh, or whinney as they call it in some Countrys? 1815Scott Guy M. xxiii, Dumple..walked to his own stable-door, and there pawed and whinnied for admission. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! vii, The colts in the horse-park..whinnied as they played together. 1858O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. xii, French horns whinnied. 1885Mrs. C. Praed Head Station xlvi, The calves whinnied in their pen as she approached. 1893Kipling Many Invent., Finest Story 124 The gas-jet puffed and whinnied. 1894Crockett Raiders xxxvii, Again the bird [sc. snipe] whinnied in the air.
2. trans. To utter with a whinnying sound; to express by whinnying.
1815Scott Guy M. li, ‘He who shot young Hazlewood—ha, ha, ho!’ burst forth the Dominie, with a laugh that sounded like neighing... ‘Accidental! ho, ho, ha!’ again whinnied Sampson. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xxiv, ‘I can't move.’ Benson made a resolute halt. ‘I must be fetched’, he whinnied. 1888Gunter Mr. Potter iv. 45 The donkeys..whinny their pleasure as they drink.
Hence ˈwhinnying vbl. n. and ppl. a. († also quasi-adv.).
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 358/2 Hinnitus,..the neying or whinying of an horse or mare. 1595North Plutarch, Sylla 514 A sharpe voyce like the neying of a horse, or whynnying of a goate. 1607Markham Cavel. i. xvi. 63 Where they may neither heare the noyse of their dams, nor their dams heare their whinneing. 1675Cotton Burlesque upon B. 40, I..run whynnying mad, For every woman that I see. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose viii, His low whinnying neigh, his pricked ears [etc.]. 1837W. Irving Bonneville xli, The elk kept up a continual whinnying or squealing. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxx, Several small, whinnying laughs. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. xvi, There was a whinnying call from one horse to another. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xxv, The whinnying of swords as they whistled through the air.
Add:[1.] b. transf. Of a person: to make a sound suggestive of the whinnying of a horse, esp. to laugh or (occas.) cry in this way.
a1825R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) II. 374 Whinny,..to snivel and whimper like a child. [1876see whinnying ppl. adj. below.] 1979in Collins Dict. Eng. Lang. 1980Washington Post 6 Dec. d5/2 Neither the translation (with phrases like ‘whinny for joy’) nor the acting do anything to bring the story down to earth. 1989New Republic 10 July 29/1 The Queen's son, Cloten,..whinnies like a black Pee Wee Herman. |