Neigh vs Howl - What's the difference?
neigh | howl |
(of a horse) to make its cry
to make a sound similar to a horses' cry
(obsolete) To scoff or sneer.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
As nouns the difference between neigh and howl
is that neigh is the cry of a horse while howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.As verbs the difference between neigh and howl
is that neigh is (of a horse) to make its cry while howl is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.neigh
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Verb
(en verb)- This fake laughter sounds like a horse neighing .
- neighed at his nakedness
See also
* whinny * nickerhowl
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision