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  • noun literature One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, that inhabit the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
  • noun informal An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.

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Coined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels.

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Yahoo!

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