Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the beings described by Swift in “Gulliver's Travels” as horses endowed with reason and extraordinary virtues, who bear rule over the Yahoos or man-like beings, a vicious, disgusting race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift
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Examples
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By houyhnhnm, July 30, 2009 @ 9:47 pm by all means retire to the “jolly little neighborhood bar” code for bigoted racist sexist boy-club the world will survive, no doubt
Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something. 2009
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By houyhnhnm, July 31, 2009 @ 5:54 pm hav good trip JB all road trips remind me of the opening sentence i am a big fan of the good opening sentence - bring back the opening sentence, anyway, “It was somewhere out of Brisbane when the drugs started to kick in”
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By houyhnhnm, August 20, 2009 @ 8:59 pm the whole “why the post?” is fairly straightfoward.
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By houyhnhnm, July 30, 2009 @ 10:39 pm poor old keith, he appears to have a brain.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something. 2009
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Everyone is giving houyhnhnm too much credit, SJS has stronger delusion rants. and she actually rather likes JB.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something. 2009
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By Matt Keith, August 10, 2009 @ 12:00 am houyhnhnm, Er… Yes?
Cheeseburger Gothic » The only good martyr is a dead martyr. 2009
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By houyhnhnm, July 31, 2009 @ 2:25 pm abstract panopticon, as if viewing the earth from the interior, shiny, golden and with thread-like veins discernible over the entire surface everything connected.
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By the accounts i hear it was also successful the houyhnhnm is north coast, althouth the developers have also successfully traded the name sunshine coast, for 30 pieces of add rev.
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By houyhnhnm, August 3, 2009 @ 6:20 pm sorry the sitrep wont change in my opinion till there is….
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By houyhnhnm, July 30, 2009 @ 10:04 pm i represent the great unwashed
Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, that was like hard work or something. 2009
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