HOUYHNHNM


Meaning of HOUYHNHNM in English

/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 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .