From Middle English whynyen, whinien, akin to Middle English whinen.

• IPA: /ˈwɪni/

whinny (plural whinnies)

1. A gentle neigh.

   Hypernyms: neigh#Noun

   Coordinate term: (sometimes synonymous) nicker

   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC ↗, pages 85–86 ↗:

     And moving out they found the stately horse, / Who now no more a vassal to the thief, / But free to stretch his limbs in lawful fight, / Neigh'd with all gladness as they came, and stoop'd / With a low whinny toward the pair: […]

• German: Wiehern
• Portuguese: relincho
• Spanish: relinchito

whinny (whinnies, present participle whinnying; simple past and past participle whinnied)

1. (transitive, intransitive, of a horse) To make a gentle neigh.

   Hypernyms: neigh#Verb

   Coordinate term: (sometimes synonymous) nicker

   • 1904 May, Winston Churchill, The Crossing, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC ↗, book I (The Borderland), page 240 ↗:

     Cattle lowed here and there, and horses whinnied to be fed.

   • 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XIII, in The Mucker‎, All-Story Cavalier Weekly:

     A pony whinnied a short distance from the hut.

• German: wiehern
• Italian: nitrire
• Portuguese: relinchar
• Russian: ржать