Houyhnhnm

Houyhnhnm
/hooh in"euhm, hwin"euhm, win"-/, n.
(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; appar. echoic; cf. WHINNY]

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