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a member of the race of kind and intelligent horses that Gulliver meets in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift . They are completely different to the Yahoos , who work for them. The Yahoos look like men but are stupid and cruel. Gulliver later returns to his own land and finds that he now dislikes men, having learned a lot from the Houyhnhnms. (Their name is intended to sound like the sound a horse makes.).