Houyhnhnm

[ hoo-in-uhm, hwin-uhm, win- ]

noun

1. (in Swift's Gulliver's Travels ) one of a race of horses endowed with reason, who rule the Yahoos, a race of degraded, brutish creatures having human form.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Houyhnhnm¹

1726; apparently echoic; whinny

Example Sentences

How is it, we ask of those more intimately acquainted with the metaphysics of the Houyhnhnm than we pretend to be?

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The pony travelled like a glorified Houyhnhnm and we have brought a second male servant to take care of him.

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The Houyhnhnm's legs are very well; the horse slipped on his side and not on his knees, and has received no sort of injury.

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No end to the wild pranks, the Houyhnhnm horse-play they had with drunken Gundling.

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Amid the inextinguishable horse-laughter (sincere but vacant) of the Houyhnhnm Olympus.

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