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Easter Bunny

Definition: Easter Bunny

Easter Bunny

Noun

1. A rabbit that delivers Easter eggs.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Easter Bunny

DomainUsage

Screenplays

There is an Easter Bunny. (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

There is no Easter Bunny! Over there, that's just a guy in a suit! (Mallrats ; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

He looks like a deranged Easter Bunny. (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark)

I'm a cheap chocolate Easter Bunny. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

Movie/TV Titles

The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town (1977)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Easter Bunny

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Easter Bunny is a symbolic rabbit, usually in depictions, used in the celebrations of Easter.

Pre-Christian origin

Both Easter and Easter Bunny originated from the pre-Christian goddess, Eostre, who was sometimes depicted with a hare's head. Her associations with the hare seem to be related to its high fecundity (ability to reproduce quickly). Her connections with the hare would appear to be the origin of the Easter Bunny, eggs being a worldwide symbol of fertility. A story is told that the goddess turned her pet bird into a rabbit to entertain some children. The rabbit immediately laid some brightly colored eggs, which the goddess gave to the children.

Modern history

The idea of an egg laying rabbit came to the United States in the 1700s. German immigrants in the Pennsylvania Dutch area told their children about the "Oserhase" (also: "Oschter Haws") or Easter Bunny. Only the good children received gifts of coloured eggs in the nests that they had made in their caps and bonnets before Easter. Presumably, the Oschter Haws laid them when they were not looking.

In the United States, the Easter Bunny purportedly leaves baskets of treats (inlcuding Easter eggs and assorted chocolates) on Easter morning for good children. This is a common practice even in non-Christian households, as Easter has started to become a more non-sectarian festival, like Halloween or Valentine's Day.

In Australia, where rabbits have been an environmental disaster and are in consequence not popular, there have been attempts to replace the Easter Bunny with the Easter Bilby.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Easter Bunny."

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Commercial Usage: Easter Bunny

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Books

  • Easter Bunny, Are You For Real? (reference)

  • Silly Tilly and the Easter Bunny (I Can Read) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Easter Bunny

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Easter Bunny

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

easter bunny

1,863

easter bunny costume

51
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Modern Translations: Easter Bunny

Language Translations for "Easter bunny"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

paashaas. (various references)

   

French

  

lapin de Pâques. (various references)

   

German

  

Osterhase (easter rabbit). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easteray unnybay.(various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

uskršnji zeka (easter rabbit). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Easter Bunny

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-n-n-r-s-t-u-y"

-2 letters: bannerets.

-3 letters: absenter, banneret, sauterne, subentry, unbeaten, urbanest.

-4 letters: arbutes, austere, banners, bannets, banters, barytes, beanery, beaters, bennets, berates, betrays, brunets, bunters, burnets, bursate, butanes, butenes, earnest, eastern, ensnare, estuary, eyebars, natures, nearest, neatens, neuters, rebates, rennase, rennets, retunes, saunter, stunner, styrene, subrent, subteen, synurae, tanners, tannery, tenners, tenures, turbans, tureens, tuyeres, unbears, uneaten, yestern.

-5 letters: absent, abuser, aeneus, anenst, antres, arbute, aretes, astern, banner, bannet, banter, barest, baryes, baryte, baster, beaten, beater, beauts, beauty, bennes, bennet, berate, berets, betray, branny, brants, breast, brents, brunet, brunts, brutes, bunter, bunyas, burans, burets, burnet, bursae, buster, butane, butene, buyers, easter, eaters, eatery, enates, ennuye, ensure, entera, enters, enures, estray, eyebar, nature, nearby, neaten, neater, nester, neuter, ranees, rebate, rebuts, rebuys, renest, rennet, rentes, reseat, reseau, resent, retune, retuse, santur, sateen, seater, senary, senate, sennet, senryu, sentry, stayer, sterna, subnet, suntan, surety, synura, tabers, tabuns, tanner, teaser, teensy, tenner, tenser, tenues, tenure, ternes, treens, tubers, tuners, turban, tureen, tuyere, tuyers, unbans, unbars, unbear, unbent, unease, uneasy, unrent, unrest, unseat, unseen, unsent, urates, urbane, urease, usneae, yarest, yearns, yentas, yentes, yerbas, yester.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-n-n-r-s-t-u-y"
 

+3 letters: subterraneanly.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Easter Bunny


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 61 73 74 65 72      42 75 6E 6E 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100000 01000010 01110101 01101110 01101110 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#32 &#66 &#117 &#110 &#110 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0061 0073 0074 0065 0072      0042 0075 006E 006E 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39678586718423687808091

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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