whinny

noun

1. A gentle neigh.

   “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: […]”

   “When my wife and I heard a plaintive whinny from our laundry room the other day, we knew that our old dryer had cycled its last load.”

verb

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

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

   “A pony whinnied a short distance from the hut.”

   “[John Gray] whinnies like a donnish Houyhnhnm[.]”