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n. - A land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos.

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  • The word "Houyhnhnms" is the name given by Dean Swift to an imaginary race of horses endowed with reason.
  • Teh Houyhnhnms probly agrees cept tehy is teh vegetablearians.
  • His difficulty probably occurred in the "Voyage to the Houyhnhnms."
  • The Houyhnhnms, we are told, were unanimous on almost all subjects.
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