Neigh vs Whin - What's the difference?
neigh | whin |
(of a horse) to make its cry
to make a sound similar to a horses' cry
(obsolete) To scoff or sneer.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Gorse; furze.
* 1790 , '', 1828, Thomas Park (editor), ''Works of the British Poets , Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns,
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), , 1995, Canongate Books,
The plant woad-waxen.
Whinstone.
As nouns the difference between neigh and whin
is that neigh is the cry of a horse while whin is gorse; furze.As a verb neigh
is to make its cry.neigh
English
Verb
(en verb)- This fake laughter sounds like a horse neighing .
- neighed at his nakedness
See also
* whinny * nickerwhin
English
Noun
(en noun)page 65,
- By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins , and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
page 38,
- And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
- (Gray)