Houyhnhnm

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

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

(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.

1726; apparently echoic; whinny

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

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

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.

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

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

April 21, 2024absquatulate

[ab-skwoch-uh-leyt ]

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