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Easter Bunny en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˈiːs.tə ˈbʌ.ni/ (UK)
• /ˈiːs.tɚ ˈbʌ.ni/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Easter + bunny, calque of German Osterhase (literally “Easter hare”).

Meanings

1. A symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children.
   • Easter Bunnies can be booked for businesses (such as Malls), for churches, for community Easter Egg Hunts or even as a preferred birthday party costume character for a birthday that falls close to Easter. 2014, Margy Johnson, Start Your Own Costume Character Business & Make Great Money Working at Home, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 73:
   • Yeah, remember? We’re Spies, we deal in fact, not chasing after Easter Bunnies. Yeah, right. Wait the Easter Bunny’s missing? A-ha-ha! Just kidding, guys! I know the Easter Bunny is tucked away safe in his little toadstool house up in the fjords of British Columbia. 2006 March 16, Bryan Thompson, “I Want My Mummy”, in Totally Spies!, season 2, episode 2, spoken by Alexandra “Alex” (Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam” and Katie Leigh), Marathon Media, via Teletoon:
   • Some residents rotated decorations seasonally by displaying holiday wreaths in the winter and plastic Easter Bunnies and pinwheels in the spring. 2016, Kimberley Kinder, DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
   • One day the old Easter Bunny looked out of his winter covert and Said to his Bunny-wife, who was busy coloring Easter eggs, “It is high time we set out to look for the Easter Lily.” 1915 April 1, The Christian Advocate, volume 90, page 438:
   • Soon I ran into two Easter Bunnies who gave me candy. Honest! All right, it was really two women wearing pink bunny hoods. 2005, Danie Martin, Always Another Mountain: A Woman Hiking the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mountain to Mount Katahdin, Virtualbookworm Publishing, →ISBN, page 35:
   • An Easter Bunny Party 1905 April 14, Mary Dawson, “An Easter Bunny Party”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 40, page 461:
   • Two costumed Easter Bunnies, handing out plastic, candy-filled eggs and hugging children, hopped in our ranks. 2016, Richard J. Gonzales, “Conclusion”, in Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas, University of North Texas Press, →ISBN, page 287:

Forms

Synonyms

Easter Rabbit

Translations (30)

th กระต่ายอีสเตอร์ (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · tr paskalya tavşanı (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · ga coinín na Cásca (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · de Osterhase (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · hrx Oostrehaas (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · sv påskhare (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · da påskehare (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · ru пасха́льный за́яц (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · ja イースターバニー (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · uk великодній заєць (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · dsb jatšowny wuchac (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · hu húsvéti nyúl (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · cmn 復活節兔 /复活节兔 (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · fi pääsiäispupu (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · nn påskehare (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · lo ກະຕ່າຍອີສເຕີ (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · lb Ouschterhues (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · it coniglietto pasquale (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · nl paashaas (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · pdc Oschderhaas (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · eo Paska leporo (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · pt coelhinho da Páscoa (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · fr lapin de Pâques (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · el πασχαλινό λαγουδάκι (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · es conejo de Pascua (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · nds-de Oosterhaas (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · ko 부활절 토끼 (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · gmw-cfr Osterhaas (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · pl zając wielkanocny (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children) · nb påskehare (Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children)