jack

→ Brazilian Portuguese: jegue

→ European Portuguese: jaque

Transferred use of the personal name Jack.
(cricket: eleventh batsman): An allusion to the jack in playing cards, which follows the 10.

náłbiil bijaadbee dahnádidlohí

device for raising and supporting a heavy object

jekker

military: coarse medieval coat of defense

(obsolete) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves a carding machine, in the preparation of yarn.


rabbit

en-noun

rabbit (countable and uncountable, plural rabbits)

From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.
Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“seal", also "rabbit”)); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later German Low German Rubbe, Robb (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian Rubbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”).
Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term coney, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (compare ass and donkey).

onomatopoeic

imitative

gl

"rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="nl">rob</i> (“seal", also "rabbit”)

The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get: rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], “The Old Punt: A Curious ‘Turnpike’”, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 19–20:

A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.

тхьэкӏумэкӏэхьы

tḥɛkʷʼumɛkʼɛḥə


doe

en-noun

doe (countable and uncountable, plural doe or does)

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

der

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Brer Rabbit

who believe that Microsoft actually wants to be broken up (the Brer Rabbit solution),

2000 May 9, Bill Mann, “Microsoft Ain't AT&T”, in The Motley Fool:


silver fox

Vulpes vulpes
Vulpes vulpes#Translingual

A melanistic red fox (Vulpes vulpes) with silver to black fur.


cony

conies (plural)
coney (alternative)
cunny (alternative)
connie (alternative)

From Middle English cony, back formation from conies (plural), from Anglo-Norman conis, the plural of connil (“rabbit”), from Latin cunīculus, of unknown origin. Cognate to Dutch konijn, German Kaninchen, Spanish conejo, and Portuguese coelho. The original pronunciation was /ˈkʌni/ (for the spelling, compare honey and money), but the similarity to cunt (and particularly homophony with cunny) led through taboo avoidance both to the word's displacement in the main by rabbit and bunny and to the spelling-pronunciation /ˈkəʊni/ becoming standard.

An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: Epinephelus apua, the hind of Bermuda; nigger-fish, Epinephelus punctatus; Cephalopholis fulva.


lop

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"He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."

1935, Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, page 5:

(US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.


cottontail

A rabbit of any of various species in genus Sylvilagus.


bunny

Surfers from Durban grew up on bunnies. You get the curry in the bread with the removed square chunk, used to dunk back in the curry.

2008, Steve Pike, Surfing South Africa, page 258:

(South Africa) Bunny chow; a snack of bread filled with curry.


bunny rabbit

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(childish or endearing) A bunny; a rabbit.


bunny boiler

bunny boilers (plural)
bunny-boiler (alternative)

From a scene in the 1987 film Fatal Attraction where a scorned woman (played by Glenn Close), seeking revenge on her ex-lover (played by Michael Douglas), places his family’s beloved pet rabbit in a pot of boiling water when he is away from the house.

Witness such media events as the Great Old Maid Scare of '86 (sparked by a study suggesting that a woman who hasn't married by age forty has less chance of doing so than of being shot by a terrorist); and the Fatal Attraction Syndrome (the notion that unmarried career women are so unfulfilled they turn into homicidal bunny-boilers).

[1988, Glamour, volume 86, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 159:

There's nothing like portraying a psychopathic bunny-boiler to boost one's self-esteem, Glenn Close tells Ladies' Home Journal.

[1990 December 6, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex.: The Dallas Morning News, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A2, column 3:

The bad news is that a small percentage of women are obsessive stalker types or "Bunny Boilers." Bunny Boilers will continue to call and may even wait for hours outside your home or office trying to see you, even though you have made it clear that it was just a one night stand. Bunny Boilers take the fun out of shagging.

2001, Sam Priest, “Beware of ‘Bunny Boilers’”, in Shagging for America: (Unwritten Rules for Unrepentant Males), New York, N.Y.: Hangover Media, →ISBN, page 51:

And I tried a couple of traditional dating agencies, but after parting with a small fortune and being introduced to one nymphomaniac and a couple of bunny boilers, I felt it was better to trust my own judgment and use the Internet.

2005, Jane Moore, Love @ First Site: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Broadway Books, →ISBN, page 149:

The 1980s bunny-boiler was perceived to be infinitely more dangerous than the bra-burner; whereas the latter confined herself to a rejection of feminine accoutrements, the bunny-boiler – bolstered by the successes of the women's movement – did not hesitate to assert her rights and use violent means to achieve her goals.

2009, Stéphanie Genz, “Boiling the Bunny: The Backlash and Macho Feminism”, in Postfemininities in Popular Culture, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (From “Feminine Mystique” to “Girl Power”), page 66:

He wondered why he always landed bunny-boilers who started out cool and calm but speedily went into the pursuit mode of deadly missiles.

2009, Lynne Graham, The Ruthless Magnate’s Virgin Mistress (Harlequin Presents; 2787), Toronto, Ont., New York, N.Y.: Harlequin, →ISBN, page 10:

Neither should we think that Bunny Boilers are always female—this is not the case. However, I think females view the male version in a different light. [...] Women regard him as the cheeky chappie. They seem resigned to his bad behaviour.

2014 March 5, Rosie Andrews, “Foreword”, in Strange Creatures, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 4–5:

(slang, humorous, derogatory) A person who acts (or may supposedly act) obsessively or even dangerously towards another person with whom they were previously, or wish to be, in a relationship.

Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close
Michael Douglas


warren

From Middle English warenne, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French warenne (compare Old French guarenne, garenne (“game-park”)), probably ultimately from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną (“ward off, defend against”); compare also Old French warir, guarir, a borrowing from this Germanic root. Alternatively from Gaulish *warrennā (“enclosed area”), from *warros (“stick, post”), Proto-Celtic *warrā (“post, prop”).

The largest warren in group 9 had 10 entrances in use and 11 not in use.

1986, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (Australia), Australian Wildlife Research, page 332:

A system of burrows in which rabbits live.

konijnenheuvel

the system of burrows where rabbits live

We piled into Manchester's car, leaving mine at the gallery, and crossed town, striking off the main road and into a warren of dirt roads and adobe.

1984, Brett : from Bloomsbury to New Mexico, page 265:

Andrew had allowed her practically a free hand, and her interference had resulted in making the house a warren of rooms, connected by narrow corridors that meant much more work and worry for the housekeeper than the conventional model would have given.

2000, Christiaan Louis Leipoldt, Stephen Gray, Stormwrack, page 26:

With demand having increased by almost 40% in the past ten years, overcrowding now threatens to reach occasionally dangerous levels on platforms and in the warren of narrow subterranean passageways between them and the surface.

2019 October 23, Paul Stephen delivers a progress report on London Underground's transformative Bank Station capacity upgrade, Rail, page 68:

(figuratively) A mazelike place of passages and/or rooms in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.

A forest is a certen territorie of wooddy grounds and fruitfull pasrues, priviledged for wild beast and foules of forest, chase, and warren to rest and abide in, in the safe protection of the king for his princely delight and pleasure, which territorie of ground, so priviledged, is meered and bounded with unremoveable marks, meeres, and boundaries, either known by matter of record or els by presceription;

Free warren is a franchise , erected for the preservation or custody ( which the word signifies ) of beasts and fowls of warren; which , being feræ naturæ , every one had a natural right to kill as he could : but upon the introduction of the forest laws, at the period of the Norman conquest, these animals being looked upon as royal game and the sole property of our savage monarchs, this franchise of free-warren was invented to protect them; by giving the grantee a sole and exclusive power of killing such game so far as his warren extended, on condition of his preventing other persons. A man therefore that has the franchise of a warren, is in reality no more than a royal gamekeeper; but no man, not even a lord of a manor, could by common law justify sporting on another's soil, unless he had the liberty of free-warren.

1823, Thomas Burgeland Johnson, The Shooter's Companion, page 296:

Grouse are not birds of warren ( 2 ); and trespass on a free warren will not lie for shooting them .

1844, Archibald John Stephens, George Sharswood, The Law of Nisi Prius, page 2003:

The franchise of free warren is to be claimed only by grant from the crown, or by prescription which supposes such a grant (n); and the effect of it is, to vest in the grantee a property in such wild animals or inferior specieis of game as are deemed to beasts and fowls of warren (0).

1867, John Scriven, A Treatise on Copyholds. Customary Freeholds, Ancient Demesne, and the Jurisdiction of Courts Baron and Courts Leet, page 477:

(archaic) The class of small game such as hare, pheasants, stoats, etc., as opposed to beasts of chase such as deer, bear, and foxes.

And when the play was over, this John Adroyns in the evening departed from the market town to go home; and because he had there no change of clothing, he went forth in his devil's apparel; and his way lay through a warren of rabbits, belonging to a gentleman of the village, where he himself dwelt; at which time it happened that a priest, a vicar of the church, with two or three other idle fellows, brought with them a horse, a snare, and a ferret, to take the rabbits; and when the ferret was in the earth, and the snare set over the path where this John Adroyns should come, the priest and his fellows, seeing him coming, and considering they were in the devil's service, by stealing the rabbits though it was the devil indeed, ran away for fear.

Now warrenders tell us, and we are convinced of the fact from repeated experience, that if a wounded or dying rabbit get into a burrow, none of the living ones will ever pass it: they will die in their holes first; so that a single wounded or dead animal will cause the death of perhaps a score of their own kind in the same locality. This becomes a real loss to the proprietor of a warren.

1854, Robert Blakely, Shooting, page 159:

This warren is the flat at the summit of an exceedingly high mountain, and consists of, I think, the very worst land I ever saw in my life.

1888, Richard John Lloyd Price, Rabbits for Profit and Rabbits for Powder, page 32:

As to the privileges of an owner of a free warren, he may not only prosecute a trespasser who is in pursuit of beasts and fowls of warren, whether he be a stranger in the locality, or a tenant of lands within the limits of the free warren, but he may also kill any dogs found hunting in his warren, whether they are doing damage at the time or not.

1898, James Edmund Harting, Alexander Innes Shand, The Rabbit, page 55:

Commission of oyer and terminer to Robert de Morle, John de Shardelowe, William Giffard and John de Hemenhale, on complaint by Edward de Monte Acuto that Giles de Wyngefeld, Ranulph de Wyngefeld and other broke his part at Ersham, co. Norfolk, hunted therein and in his free warren, fished in his several fishery there, carried away fish and deer with hares and rabbits from his warren, and assaulted his men and servants.

1900, Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of the Patent Rolls Preserved in the Public Record, page 102:

A place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits.

warenne

a place legally authorized for the keeping, breeding and hunting of beasts of warren, especially rabbits

Free-warren confers the property in wild animals, and that property may be claimed (a) in the land of another, to the exclusion of the owner of the soil; for in ancient times persons summoned to parliament often obtaine from the Crown grants of warren in their demesne lands, comprising such parts of their manors or honours as then were, or might come into their actual possession; but the grant of warren (b) to a party in all his demsne lands, does not extend over the lands of freeholders of the manor, as such grants are construed strictly.

1845, John Smith Furlong, A Treatise on the Law of Landlord and Tenant, page 337:

The defendant has pleaded a warren in gross: he does not make it appendant or appurtenant. He shews merely that Charles I. granted a free warren, as he might do.

1910, The English Reports - Volume 110, page 1361:

Henry de Greye claims to have many franchises in Toveton by Charter of King Henry, that is to say a warren.

1951, Keith Sydney Sayer Train, A Second Miscellany of Nottinghamshire Records, page 52:

Warren grants contained prohibitions on fishing more frequently than forest grants did.

1988, David Maxwell Walker, A Legal History of Scotland: The beginnings to A.D. 1286, page 379:

(historical) The right to maintain and hunt an area of small beasts, similar to a free warren, but with certain limitations, such as restricting the right to hunt on parts of the land held by freeholders.


dust bunny

WASHINGTON: The common American household Dust Bunny has been designated as an endangered species, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USF&WS) announced last week. "The widespread use of household cleaning products and devices has drastically reduced the habitat of the Dust Bunny," said Noah Present, Acting Director of the Endangered Species Program. "American homes are cleaned too frequently, and much better than in the past." / "We are not to blame for the improper use of our products," responded a spokesman for the Household Products Association. "Correctly used, many of the Dust Bunnies should survive."

2008, Hugh A. Holub, “Dust Bunnies Designated Endangered Species: 25% of Homes Declared Critical Habitat”, in Deer Seen as Terrorist Threat and Other Stories, [Raleigh, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN, page 83:

About 3.6 billion years ago, the sun and its planets coalesced from a cloud of stellar debris, probably helped along by the push from the explosion of a nearby supernova. The particles of cosmic dust began sticking together by static electricity, the same force that forms dust bunnies under your bed. Eventually, the particles got big enough for gravity to start pulling more pieces together.

2016 August 28, Dale Gnidovec, “Geology: Chemically unique meteorite found in quarry might be ‘extinct’”, in The Columbus Dispatch, archived from the original on 2016-08-29:

Sure, some dogs may get super-itchy and lose extra fur, while others may seem to groom themselves incessantly, leaving your floors strewn with serious dust bunnies. In the absence of these and the above-mentioned problems, your Lab mix is just being a dog that conforms perfectly to her breed type. In other words, this breed sheds – a lot!

2016 August 30, Patty Khuly, “Dog shedding too much? Try these easy fixes”, in Miami Herald, archived from the original on 2016-08-31:

Phobos just can't catch a break. Not only is Mars' lumpy, crusted-over dust bunny of a moon destined to be ripped to pieces in 10 million years, it seems the poor thing can't stop punching itself.

2016 August 31, Maddie Stone, “We finally know what caused those mysterious craters on Phobos”, in Gizmodo Australia, archived from the original on 2016-08-31:

(US, informal) A small clump of dust, fluff, hair, particles of skin, etc., that tends to accumulate indoors in areas not regularly dusted, such as under heavy furniture.


cunny

en-adj

cunny (comparative more cunny, superlative most cunny)

more cunny (comparative)
most cunny (superlative)

Nevertheless, she was a "cunny Jamaican woman" who knew 'what side her bread was buttered on.'

2000, Donna Maxine Weir, Beyond Binaries: Creolized Forms of Resistance in African-American and Caribbean Literatures, page 175:


angora

en-noun

angora (countable and uncountable, plural angoras)

From the name of the city of Ankara in Turkey, from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura, “anchor”).


Amami rabbit

Pentalagus furnessi, a dark-furred, nocturnal rabbit found on the islands of Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima in southern Japan.


binky

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* Perhaps a child's pronunciation of blanket.
* (US) Commercial child's pacifier brand name. (1948–1977)

(informal, childish) A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.


Hollander

Hollanders (plural)
Hollender (alternative)

From Middle English holander, Hollander; equivalent to Holland + -er; compare the German Holländer.


white rabbit

A phrase said, before saying anything else, on the first day of the month in order to bring good luck.


esquilax

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).

Yeah, well I get to run the Circus Sideshow, and the esquilaxes.

1997, Powdered TOAST Man, “TAN: The Weasel Strikes Back”, in aus.tv.x-files (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.

1999, Cabrutus, “is lack of evidence a reason to lack belief?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

I wasn't thinking of gray elephants in Denmark, I was thinking of white esquilaxes in the Domincan ^([sic]) Republic.

2001, Anonymous Weirdo, “Have a rest”, in sk.forsale (Usenet):

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

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


rabbitry

Аn enclosure where rabbits are kept, and often bred.

зайчарник

an enclosure where rabbits are kept, and often bred


lionhead rabbit

lionhead rabbit (plural lionhead rabbits)

From lion + head + rabbit, from the resemblance to a male lion's mane.

A domestic rabbit of a United States breed that has particularly long wool around the face.


rabbitat

We have already seen how forest rabbitat management improves the forest stand and helps other forest game species.

1955, Wisconsin conservation bulletin, Volume 20, page 36:

This may necessitate canvas-shelled britches and a long-sleeved hunting jacket, since thorns, needles, and burrs are part of rabbitat.

1978, Anthony J. Acerrano, The practical hunter's handbook, page 15:

Whatever special combination rabbitat is, the Prairie Home Area's small fields, weedy field borders, brush piles and cover plantings fit the bill pretty well.

1985, Missouri Conservationist, Volume 46, page 13:

The type of natural environment where rabbits can thrive.


tapeti

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tapeti, from Old Tupi tapeti.

bor+

A small South American cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus brasiliensis).


dwarf rabbit

A small-sized variety of the domestic rabbit.


volcano rabbit

Romerolagus diazi
Romerolagus diazi#Translingual

A small rabbit, Romerolagus diazi, that resides in the mountains of Mexico.


bunny wunny

(UK, childish or endearing) A bunny; a rabbit.


underground mutton

(Australia, humorous) A rabbit, or rabbit meat.


leporiphobia

For quotations using this term, see Citations:leporiphobia.


common rabbit

Oryctolagus cuniculus
Oryctolagus cuniculus#Translingual

An animal of the species Oryctolagus cuniculus, native to southwestern Europe and northwest Africa, introduced and invasive elsewhere.


European rabbit

en-noun

European rabbit (plural European rabbits)


brush rabbit

A species of small cottontail rabbits found in the Pacific Slope of the western United States and Baja California, Sylvilagus bachmani.


desert cottontail

desert cottontail (plural desert cottontails)

A common species of cottontail rabbit native to the southwestern United States as well as northern and central Mexico, extending northward into Montana, Sylvilagus audubonii.


long-eared guinea pig

long-eared guinea pig (plural long-eared guinea pigs)

Due to the keeping of rabbits as pets being illegal in some places.


silflay

Coined by Richard Adams in Watership Down as part of the fictional language Lapine, which in the story is spoken by rabbits. The word silflay (“to eat outdoors”) is derived from silf (“outdoors”) + flay (“food”).

Rabbits were out on silflay, and fat spiders hung motionless in the centre of damp webs.

1981, Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, The Trials of Worzel Gummidge, Puffin, →ISBN, page 171:

Picnickers, golden eagles and bunnies sunning themselves on silflay will therefore be glad that FoE has drawn up a set of guidelines for local authorities and a code of conduct for ATB users.

1984, Town and Country Planning, volume 53, number 10, page 287:

Three rabbits came, and once they were at silflay the gunslinger pulled leather. He took them down, skinned them, gutted them, and brought them back to the camp.

2003, Stephen King, The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, 2nd edition, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 142:

If I’m a rabbit I jump at sounds. I live in a burrow of motors. I want to jump, but cannot. The ceiling is too low in this burrow. Only rarely can I go out to silflay. I am aware of the coming and going of the sun because of a distant glow. I can barely perceive the white incandescence.

2011, Rupert Schmitt, The Mad Professor, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 485:

(of rabbits) The act of eating outdoors.


flop-eared

en-adj

flop-eared (comparative more flop-eared, superlative most flop-eared)

more flop-eared (comparative)
most flop-eared (superlative)

A buckboard with a patient flop-eared bay between shafts stood in front of ROOMS & EATS.

1963, Jack Schaefer, Monte Walsh, page 152:

Having ears that flop, having long ears which hang down loosely.


rabbitkind

The entirety of rabbits; all rabbits collectively as a group.


bunnykind

The entirety of rabbits; all rabbits collectively as a group; rabbitkind.


Belgian hare

Its precursors were bred in Belgium in the early 18th century.

A fancy breed of domestic rabbit (not a true hare) that has been selectively bred to resemble the wild hare, with a slender wiry frame and long powerful legs.


rabbit-hearted

rabbit-hearted (comparative more rabbit-hearted, superlative most rabbit-hearted)

more rabbit-hearted (comparative)
most rabbit-hearted (superlative)


Dutch rabbit

A compact breed of rabbit with a distinctive coat having separate lighter and darker portions.


angora rabbit

a breed of rabbit, bred for its hair (angora wool)


bnuuy

Popularised during mid-2020; Know Your Meme tracks the usage of the term to an image posted to Reddit on 29 May 2020.

fucking bnuuy who gave you the right to be as cute as your owner [followed by a photograph of a black bunny]

Selen's bnuuy ears just being her wings lmao
Also Enna with the floppy ears is so cute wtf

Bnuuys are cute, people should hug them more

(Internet slang, childish, humorous, endearing) Deliberate misspelling of bunny.


snowrabbit

snowrabbits (plural)
snow-rabbit (alternative)
snow rabbit (alternative)

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Second Madam gave a sigh and turned to leave, feeling inexplicably flustered in her heart, jumping around like a snowrabbit.

2019, Ru Yan, The Reborn Vengeful Woman, volume 1:

A rabbit that inhabits regions frequently covered with snow.