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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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¶NINNY-NIAW, v. Of a horse: to wheeze, grunt from broken wind. Vbl.n. ninny-niawing.Dmf. 1842 Carlyle Letters to Sister (Copeland 1899) 135:
[The horse] took to the trick they call “scouring,” — in a sullen windless ninny-niawing.