houyhnhnmn.
/ˈhwɪhn(ə)m//ˈhwɪn(ə)m/ The name given by Swift in Gulliver's Travels to one of a race of beings described as horses endowed with reason and bearing rule over a degraded brutish race of men, called the Yahoos. Hence transferred. A horse having, or considered as having, human characteristics.
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1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. i. 16 Then the Bay tried me with a second Word, much harder to be pronounced; but reducing it to the English Orthography, may be spelt thus, Houyhnhnm.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. iii. 37 The word Houyhnhnm, in their Tongue, signifies a Horse, and in its Etymology, the Perfection of Nature.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. xii. 195 The two Yahoos, said to have been seen many Ages ago on a Mountain in Houyhnhnmland.
1727 A. Pope (title) To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, the grateful address of the unhappy Houyhnhnms, now in slavery and bondage in England.
1727 A. Pope To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, the grateful address of the unhappy Houyhnhnms i Accept our humble lays, And let each grateful Houyhnhnm neigh thy praise.
1727 A. Pope Mary Gulliver to Capt. Lemuel Gulliver 107 I'd call thee Houyhnhnm, that high-sounding name.
1773 A. Grant Let. 29 Apr. in Lett. from Mountains (1806) I. 31 I should be very sorry to have my poor houhynms where I could neither hear them neigh, nor see them shake their necks.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 30 ‘Get on, you Houyhnhnm!’ exclaimed we. The animal coughed banteringly.
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