esquilax
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Coined in a 1995 episode of the animated TV show The Simpsons named "Lisa's Wedding", in which a Renaissance fair sideshow promotes a normal rabbit as "a horse with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit".
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɛs.kwɪ.læks/
- Rhymes: -ɛskwɪlæks
Noun[edit]
esquilax (plural esquilaxes)
- (rare, humorous) A rabbit.
- 1997, Powdered TOAST Man, “TAN: The Weasel Strikes Back”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):
- Yeah, well I get to run the Circus Sideshow, and the esquilaxes.
- 1999, Cabrutus, “is lack of evidence a reason to lack belief?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
- In fact, I am also "really weakly omnipotent," because it is logically impossible for me to fly unaided, or transform myself into an esquilax, because I am a being who cannot do those things. But I can do anything which it is logically possible for me to do.