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# neigh

«neigh» in Mova's school dictionary: **verb: When a horse neighs, it makes its long, high, loud…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (neigh, neighs, neighed, neighing); noun (a neigh, neighs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) verb: When a horse neighs, it makes its long, high, loud call. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#m1)

2) noun: The sound a horse makes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, a horse neighing tells the reader it is excited, frightened or calling to other horses. In early reading, animal sounds: cows moo, sheep baa, horses neigh. Phrases: «neigh loudly», «a loud neigh», «gave a neigh».

### examples

- The horse neighed when it saw the farmer with the hay. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#x1)
- We heard a loud neigh from the stable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#x2)
- The pony neighed and tossed its head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#x3)
- Cows moo and horses neigh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#x4)
- The frightened horse gave a high neigh and galloped away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#x5)
- Can you neigh like a horse? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#x6)
- Proud, black horses, worth looking at, were neighing in the stable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/#x7)

### note

Past «neighed». Pronounced «nay», the same sound as «nay» (old word for no). Spelling has silent «gh» like in «weigh» and «eight». Homophone: nay. Other horse sounds: whinny, snort, nicker.

### In the corpora

- [They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.144/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «neigh» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/neigh/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.