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houyhnhnm

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Hou⋅yhn⋅hnm

  [hoo-in-uhm, hwin-uhm, win-]
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–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; appar. echoic; cf. 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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