[f. WHINNY v.] An act of whinnying; a (low or gentle) neigh, or similar sound.
1823. E. Moor, Suffolk Words, Whinny, the half neigh, half nigger, of a horse, mare, or colt.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, v. 442. The gray mare Is ill to live with, when her whinny shrills From tile to scullery.
1870. Meredith, Lett. to J. Morley, 27 Jan. Out flaps the big girl with a whinny, Fire! Fire!
1871. Whyte-Melville, Sarchedon, I. ii. 20. A troop of wild asses standing at gaze for a moment, to disappear with snort and whinny.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, xli. I set my hands to my mouth,… and made the whinny of the heatherbleat [= snipe] palpitate across the moor.
