Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
Alternative form of Binkie (“a pet name”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: childish, informal
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noun
A baby's pacifier.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, childish, informal
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noun
A high hop that a rabbit may perform when happy, usually with a 180° turn while in the air and a bewildered expression upon landing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To perform a high hop, as when happy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Qualifier: rabbit behavior
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History
* Perhaps a child's pronunciation of blanket. * (US) Commercial child's pacifier brand name. (1948–1977)
* Onomatopoeic. Coined by either Dana Krempels or her sister in 1994 or 1995 for Ken Albin's "UNOFFICIAL PETBUNNY DICTIONARY", an enthusiast project organized on the PetBunny mailing list.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
