Houyhnhnm

American  

[hoo-in-uhm, hwin-uhm, win-] / huˈɪn əm, ˈʰwɪn əm, ˈwɪn- /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Houyhnhnm

1726; apparently echoic; cf. whinny

Example Sentences

"Oh, it was—it was!" whooped the Houyhnhnm from out the cellar.

From The Storm Centre by Murfree, Mary Noailles

The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house. 

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

The word Houyhnhnm, in their tongue, signifies a horse, and, in its etymology, the perfection of nature. 

From Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan

That will do for the Houyhnhnm Gazette.—Do you ever wonder why poets talk so much about flowers?

From Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

There are more than four hundred horses in His Highness's city stables alone; and where the Houyhnhnm is, there also will be the Yahoo.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard