Meaning

noun a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

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

noun a widely used search engine for the web that finds information, news, images, products, finance

originCoined by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels. According to the Century Dictionary, "[a] made name, prob[ably] meant to suggest disgust".

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