411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Easter Bunny
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
English
Etymology
From en Easter bunny, en de Osterhase 1 Easter hare.
Pronunciation
en /ˈiːs.tə ˈbʌ.ni/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Easter Bunny.wav Southern England
en /ˈiːs.tɚ ˈbʌ.ni/ US
Proper noun
ies Easter Bunny
thumb|An Easter Bunny.
A symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children.
en Good Housekeeping 40 April 1905 461 An Easter Bunny Party Mary Dawson An Easter Bunny Party
en The Christian Advocate 90 438 1 April 1915 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.”
en Danie Martin Always Another Mountain: A Woman Hiking the Appalachian Trail from Springer Mountain to Mount Katahdin Virtualbookworm Publishing 2005 35 1-58939-693-6 Soon I ran into two Easter Bunnies who gave me candy. Honest! All right, it was really two women wearing pink bunny hoods.
en Jennifer Hale as Samantha “Sam”; w:Katie Leigh Alexandra “Alex” w:Totally Spies! 2 2 I Want My Mummy Bryan Thompson w:Teletoon w:Marathon Media Mar 16 2006 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.
en Margy Johnson Start Your Own Costume Character Business & Make Great Money Working at Home w:Xlibris 2014 73 978-1-4931-7515-4 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.
en Kimberley Kinder DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services w:University of Minnesota Press 2016 978-1-4529-4985-7 Some residents rotated decorations seasonally by displaying holiday wreaths in the winter and plastic Easter Bunnies and pinwheels in the spring.
en Richard J. Gonzales Conclusion Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas w:University of North Texas Press 2016 287 9781574416329 Two costumed Easter Bunnies, handing out plastic, candy-filled eggs and hugging children, hopped in our ranks.
Synonyms
en Easter Rabbit
Translations
Symbolic rabbit sometimes depicted delivering Easter eggs to children
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 復活節兔 Fùhuójié tù
Danish: da påskehare c
Dutch: nl paashaas m
Esperanto: eo Paska leporo
Finnish: fi pääsiäispupu
French: fr lapin de Pâques m
German: de Osterhase m
Central Franconian: gmw-cfr Osterhaas
Greek: el πασχαλινό λαγουδάκι n
Hungarian: hu húsvéti nyúl
Hunsrik: hrx Oostrehaas m
Irish: ga coinín na Cásca m
Italian: it coniglietto pasquale m
Japanese: ja イースターバニー Īsutā Banī
Korean: ko ^부활절 토끼
Lao: lo ກະຕ່າຍອີສເຕີ
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de Oosterhaas
Luxembourgish: lb Ouschterhues m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb påskehare m
Nynorsk: nn påskehare m
Pennsylvania German: pdc Oschderhaas m
Polish: pl zając wielkanocny m
Portuguese: pt coelhinho da Páscoa m
Russian: ru пасха́льный за́яц m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb jatšowny wuchac m
Spanish: es conejo de Pascua m
Swedish: sv påskhare c
Thai: th กระต่ายอีสเตอร์
Turkish: tr paskalya tavşanı
Ukrainian: uk великодній заєць m
Further reading
en Characters from folklore Easter Fictional characters Mythological figures