Houyhnhnm
[ hoo-in-uh m, hwin-uh m, win- ]
/ huˈɪn əm, ˈʰwɪn əm, ˈwɪn- /
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 of Houyhnhnm
1726; apparently echoic; cf.
whinny