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n. - The characteristic sounds made by a horse v. - Make a characteristic sound, of a horse.

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  • But there was no movement about the fire, and another whinny was the only sound that came from its direction.
  • We felt compelled to look into this, and what we found was that the whinny is a complex call full of relevant social information.
  • At the end of the last chorus - the last chorus, the band does something; the saxophonists do a fast kind of whinny trill.
  • Their common "whinny" sounds pretty much like a horse whinny.
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