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rabbity, a.|ˈræbɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -y1.]
Abounding in rabbits; somewhat like a rabbit. Also, suggestive or characteristic of a rabbit. Also Comb., as rabbity-faced, rabbity-looking adjs.
1887[see rabbiter]. 1892Field 10 Dec. 883/2 Any gamey or rabbity district. 1897W. C. Hazlitt 4 Generations II. 207 The legs are the only edible part..and..are of a rabbity flavour. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 98 There are too many people on earth Insipid, unsalted, rabbity, endlessly hopping. 1931D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xvi. 177 The rabbity-faced fellow in the train. 1937C. Day Lewis Starting Point iii. iv. 284 Darling, you're not going to turn me into a rabbity little wage-earner, are you? 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 120 A leporello who, in real life, is a rabbity-looking..professor. 1965M. Shadbolt Among Cinders xi. 96 I'd been starving on rabbity salads. 1974T. P. Whitney tr. Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago I. ii. ii. 544 But somehow this is hard for our rabbity brains to grasp. 1976Gramophone Nov. 878/3 My own family's verdict on the book [sc. Watership Down] was that it was ‘extraordinarily rabbitty’. 1978G. Greene Human Factor iii. v. 144 He thought he recognised all the faces except for one woman in a shabby rabbity fur. |