Definition of
Rabbit
- (noun, animal) any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
- (noun, food) flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food
- (noun, substance) the fur of a rabbit
- (verb, competition) hunt rabbits
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Alternate forms of Rabbit
Derivations: rabbit
Hyponyms: angora, angora rabbit, belgian hare, bunny, bunny rabbit, cottontail, cottontail rabbit, european rabbit, lapin, leporide, old world rabbit, oryctolagus cuniculus, rabbit ears, wood rabbit
Hypernyms: fur, game, hunt, hunt down, leporid, leporid mammal, pelt, run, track down
Origin of the word Rabbit
- late 14c., "young of the coney," from Fr. dialect (cf. Walloon rob?te), dim. of Flem. or M.Du. robbe "rabbit," of unknown origin. The adult was a coney (q.v.) until 18c.
"Zoologically speaking, there are no native rabbits in the United States; they are all hares. But the early colonists, for some unknown reason, dropped the word hare out of their vocabulary, and it is rarely heard in American speech to this day. When it appears it is almost always applied to the so-called Belgian hare, which, curiously enough, is not a hare at all, but a true rabbit." [H.L. Mencken]
Rabbit punch "chop on the back of the neck" so called from resemblance to a gamekeeper's method of dispatching an injured rabbit. Rabbit's foot "good luck charm" first attested 1879, in U.S. Southern black culture. Pulling rabbits from a hat as a conjurer's trick is first recorded 1877.
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
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Words that sound like Rabbit
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