[Ads-l] "binkies" -- a dance performed by rabbits: not in the OED

[George Thompson]

>From a story about Moo, a male rabbit colored like a Holstein cow, and a
series of interviews at a animal center in NYC, attempting to find a
companion for him.

The last prospect, a chocolate beauty named Pika, spent much of the session
doing “binkies <http://language.rabbitspeak.com/did-you-say-binky/>” —
spring-and-twist
moves that signify rabbit joy <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSv0wkAZfW0>.
Moo seemed mystified.

It appears that the fascicle of the OED that this word might have appeared
in was published in 1887, which may well explain the oversight.  (Neither
does the OED have the word "binky", meaning a baby's pacifier -- a word
that was new to me when I encountered it in 2001, so I posted it here.
That "binky" it seems is a trademark dating from the early or mid 20th C.)

"When Moo Met Tonya (and Edie and Pika and ...)."   NY Times, February 7,
2016, Metropolitan section,  p. 9

-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998..

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