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one of a race of brutes resembling men but subject to the Houyhnhnms in a novel by Jonathan Swift

Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.

One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Hence, any brutish or vicious character.

A raw countryman; a lout; a greenhorn.

One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

A name given by Swift, in one of his satires, to a race of brutes having the form but all the degrading passions of man; a rude boorish character.

n. One of a tribe of animals with certain human attributes, passions, and vices-introduced in Swift's Gulliver.] A savage, brutal person; a man of strong passions, and given to gross vices;-also, a rude, boorish member of society.