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"HOUYHNHNMS" is a plural of: houyhnhnm. |
Date "HOUYHNHNMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Houyhnhnms (whinhims). A race of horses endowed with reason, who bear rule over a race of men. Gulliver, in his Travels, tells us what he "saw" among them. (Swift.) "Nay, would kind Jove my organ so dispose To hymn harmonious Houyhnhnms through the Nose, I'd call thee Houhnhnm, that high-sounding Name; Thy children's noses all should twang the same." Pope. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: HOUYHNHNMS |
| English words defined with "HOUYHNHNMS": yahoo. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But if these censurers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the Houyhnhnms, they would soon change their opinion. |
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| "HOUYHNHNMS" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HOUYHNHNMS" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gullivers houyhnhnms in travel | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-h-h-m-n-n-o-s-u-y" | |
-5 letters: hymns, hyson, mousy, muons, mushy, nouns, shoyu, sonny, sunny. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 55 59 48 4E 48 4E 4D 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01010101 01011001 01001000 01001110 01001000 01001110 01001101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O U Y H N H N M S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 0055 0059 0048 004E 0048 004E 004D 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42495559424842484753 |
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