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2. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

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   The word "yahoo" was coined by Jonathan Swift in the fourth section of Gulliver's Travels [2] and has since entered the English language more broadly. Swift describes Yahoos as filthy with unpleasant habits, "a brute in human form," [2] resembling human beings far too closely for the liking of protagonist Lemuel Gulliver.

3. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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   Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name is pronounced either / ˈ h uː ɪ n əm / or / ˈ hw ɪ n əm /. [1] Swift apparently intended all words of the Houyhnhnm language to echo the neighing of horses.

4. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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   Gulliver's Travels, originally Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

5. Cultural influence of Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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   In 1998 the Argentine writer Edgar Brau published El último Viaje del capitán Lemuel Gulliver (The Last Voyage of Captain Lemuel Gulliver), a novel in which Swift's character goes on an imaginary fifth journey, this time into the River Plate. It satirises ways and customs of present-day society, including sports, television, politics, etc.

6. Brobdingnag - Wikipedia

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   The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag, now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The land is the subject of James Gillray's satirical hand-coloured etching and aquatint print, titled The King of Brobdingnag and Gulliver.–Vide. Swift's Gulliver: Voyage to Brobdingnag. [13]

7. Lilliput and Blefuscu - Wikipedia

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   Herman Moll: A map of the world shewing the course of Mr Dampiers voyage round it from 1679 to 1691, London 1697.Cropped region near the fictional island Lilliput. Swift was known to be on friendly terms with the cartographer Herman Moll [citation needed] and even mentions him explicitly in Gulliver's Travels (1726), chapter four, part eleven.