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English
Etymology
Coined in a 1995 episode of the animated TV show The Simpsons named "Lisa's Wedding", in which a Renaissance fair sideshow falsely promotes a normal rabbit as "a horse with the head of a rabbit and the body of a rabbit".
Possibly inspired by fanciful names for creatures from Medieval Latin (e.g. basilisk, cockatrice).
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
2001, Anonymous Weirdo, “Have a rest”, in sk.forsale (Usenet):I wasn't thinking of gray elephants in Denmark, I was thinking of white esquilaxes in the Domincan Republic.
2008, Jeßus, “Found some Hydrox”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):Could be worse... couldve been an Esquilax.