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Houyhnhnm

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

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.

Origin:
1726; apparently echoic; compare whinny

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houyhnhnm
noun
one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift

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