esquilax

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛs.kwɪ.læks/
• Rhymes: -ɛskwɪlæks

Noun

esquilax (plural esquilaxes)

1. (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 ^[sic] Republic.

   • 2008, Jeßus, “Found some Hydrox”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):

     Could be worse... couldve ^[sic] been an Esquilax.