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Definition of rabbit in English: rabbitnounPlural rabbits ˈrabɪtˈræbət 1A gregarious burrowing plant-eating mammal, with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail. Family Leporidae: several genera and species, in particular the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet or raised for food Example sentencesExamples - In other words, the Amami rabbit has been isolated for so long from other rabbits and hares, including the volcano rabbit, that they are scarcely kin.
- Appearances were put in by eastern chipmunks, gray squirrels, a rabbit and our new resident woodchuck.
- Rodents (except the groundhog) and members of the rabbit or hare families are rarely infected with rabies.
- The large, ever growing incisors in both rabbits and rodents do not undergo functional replacement.
- They mostly eat rodents, eastern cottontail rabbits, insects, and fruit.
- The rabbit was sitting up on its hind legs, still staring at her.
- Deer, hares, rabbits, mice, rats, pigeons, crows and many insects have to be ‘controlled’ in order for these crops to thrive.
- Most of the animals that participate in the program are dogs and cats - the occasional rabbit and guinea pig are introduced from time to time.
- Indeed, meat and pelts are a resource, but rabbits also destroy crops.
- Elsewhere, disappearing rabbits can signal declining health of grassland and sagebrush ecosystems.
- After all, to a shooting man the only good rabbit is a dead rabbit.
- The magnificent cats are taking their natural prey, such as deer and rabbits, but discovering also that sheep and cattle and goats are easier to catch.
- Two new extinct species are named (a rabbit and squirrel) and two of the mustelids may represent extinct new species as well.
- Deer, rabbits and foxes came racing out of the woods.
- Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter.
- English landowners introduced the European rabbit to the continent in 1859, seeking game animals for sport hunting.
- The chances of survival for South Africa's most endangered mammal, the riverine rabbit, looks even more desperate than has commonly been feared.
- They take other small rodents, shrews, rabbits, gophers, bats, and muskrats as well.
- The next day she found the white rabbit still had no food or water.
- It is a patient bird, quite content to sit for hours at a time until a young rabbit, a rat or a mouse chances to pass beneath it.
Synonyms British coney children's word bunny (rabbit) - 1.1mass noun The flesh of the rabbit as food.
chunks of rabbit and chicken Example sentencesExamples - If local meat eaters all got hooked on home-grown rabbit, imagine the effect on our food import bill.
- Sturdier ones, such as lavender, can be stuffed into chicken or rabbit before roasting, and then discarded later.
- Wild rabbit has a much darker flesh than farmed rabbit, but both are extremely versatile and, because of the price, you can afford to experiment.
- The game selection in my dish included venison, rabbit and pigeon.
- The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb.
- The substantial plate of rabbit was beautifully tender and came with the sort of gloriously rich sauce that you can feel furring up your arteries as you eat.
- My recipe for today is an old Australian country recipe for rabbit pie.
- Hot Cross Bunny turns out to be a recipe for curried rabbit that includes a shot of fiery Thai red curry paste.
- Exotic meats such as rabbit, venison and wild boar are available, in addition to countless varieties of sausages.
- This weekend's patrons can expect to be served shrimp bisque or rabbit pie with bay-leaf juice.
- I scoffed everything my mother put in front of me - plate-sized Yorkshire puddings, meat and potato pie, rabbit and dumplings, the lot.
- I sampled a tender saddle of rabbit, wrapped in fatty Portuguese bacon and doused in a bubbly mustard emulsion.
- Fuller Pinot styles go well with poached or grilled salmon, foie gras, charcuterie, rabbit, hare, boar and ham.
- The rabbit ballotine was so plain as to be almost unpleasant.
- Add the chicken and rabbit and cook until golden brown, about five minutes.
- From every kitchen in the village arose the most delicious aromas: apple pies, rabbit and chicken pies, fairy cakes, pancakes.
- My other food friend was excited by the presence of rabbit on the menu.
- Cretan cuisine centres mainly on chicken, pork, lamb, rabbit or fish, served in a variety of non-spicy sauces.
- My main course - confit of wild rabbit with Savoy cabbage and bacon with garlic and parsley mash - looked delectable.
- Like lamb cutlets, rabbit joints seem to be made for holding in your hands.
- 1.2mass noun The fur of the rabbit.
Example sentencesExamples - Typical usage is a simple trim on a hood or wrap scarf and the fur might just as easily be rabbit as mink.
- There were platform shoes, rabbit coats, sausage curls and blue eye shadow - and the women weren't a pretty sight either.
- 1.3 A hare.
- 1.4informal A poor performer in a sport or game, in particular (in cricket) a poor batsman.
he was a total rabbit with the bat Example sentencesExamples - Elsewhere both the English and Indian rabbits failed miserably in their quest for world domination.
- 1.5US A runner who acts as pacesetter in the first laps of a race.
2British informal A conversation. we had quite a heated rabbit about it Synonyms discussion, talk, chat, gossip, tête-à-tête, heart-to-heart, head-to-head, exchange, dialogue, parley, consultation, conference
verbrabbited, rabbits, rabbiting ˈrabɪtˈræbət [no object]1usually as noun rabbitingHunt rabbits. locate the area where you can go rabbiting Example sentencesExamples - I wanted to go out rabbiting with Oscar, but you've been gone ages and now he's gone to sleep.
- This was it, Evelyn recalls thinking, everything would go back to how it used to be; they would go rabbiting in the Phoenix Park, take trips in the car and visit the strawberry beds.
- It does, however, need plenty of exercise and will enjoy a days rabbiting, should the opportunity arise.
- Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
- Hunting with dogs would ban a number of less well-known bloodsports, like hare coursing, mink hunting, rabbiting with terriers.
2British informal Talk at length, especially about trivial matters. stop rabbiting on, will you, and go to bed! Example sentencesExamples - The rest were rabbiting on about share prices, company takeovers, fashion accessories, holiday destinations or some such guff.
- Given half a chance, she's rabbiting passionately about cultural strategies, architectural policies and the thorny problem of getting teenage girls into sport.
- Some of you may remember, in the dim and distant recesses of your cobwebbed memory, that last week I was rabbiting on about my son's chums and their abundance of confidence when it came to chit-chatting with adults.
- He answered the shop phone and an executive-type started rabbiting on about buying a laptop computer.
- As she made her grateful escape, Mum is rabbiting on, ‘I hope she's got a good deodorant on a day like this.’
- She was in the kitchen when I arrived, simultaneously rabbiting into a mobile phone while watching a soap opera on television.
- She is rabbiting on about antibiotics and bacterial resistance, which have nothing to do with the financial review debate.
- There is nothing in Part 1 about pensions, schools, holidays, or whatever he was rabbiting on about.
- I'm starting to rabbit on now, so I'll stop there.
- Our mate Robbo came over here for a few weeks last year and when he got back he couldn't stop rabbiting on about the place.
- While he was rabbiting on about how we would jump off the cliffs at Barnageeragh, I slipped quietly away.
Synonyms talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on 3informal Move quickly; run away. he rabbited as soon as he saw us coming Example sentencesExamples - Carlos wants to know why they rabbited and did someone tip them off.
- I spotted him, and he rabbited and abandoned the car.
- What had sent James rabbiting off to Bedfordshire when Mr. Turnbull was supposed to have gone?
- Frank, why did you rabbit?
- A rushing in the bushes to her left let her know the Doolittle boys had rabbited.
- I noticed another junkie watching me: he was trying to decide whether to rabbit or freeze.
Phrases informal Reproduce prolifically. they drank like fishes and bred like rabbits Example sentencesExamples - The only thing that keeps the system going is the ability of the prey to - for lack of a better analogy - breed like rabbits.
- He is trying to prevent bunnies breeding like rabbits.
- As for those damned geese, covering our footpaths with droppings, the things breed like rabbits and, on more than one occasion, have stopped traffic as they saunter across our roads.
- Indeed, the main reason for the continued increase in world population is, in the words of a UN consultant, ‘not that people suddenly started breeding like rabbits; it's just that they stopped dying like flies’ .
- The problem is, the things breed like rabbits, if we can mix our mammalian metaphors.
- Yes, you would get the impression that conditions in the United States would lead to people breeding like rabbits.
- ‘They're far less messy to keep than pigs,’ he explained, ‘live happily on seaweed, and best of all, breed like rabbits.’
pull (or bring) a rabbit out of the (or a) hat Do something unexpected but ingeniously effective in response to a problem. everyone is waiting to see if the king can pull a rabbit out of the hat and announce a ceasefire the Finance Minister pulled a few rabbits out of the hat to balance the Budget last year Example sentencesExamples - Like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, the President magically placed battlefield responsibility in the hands of the battle commanders.
- But the man famed for his patience and perseverance as much as his ability to conjure up the unlikeliest of big name signings, says he still has time to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
- Kind of like pulling a rabbit out of the hat, only with the Supreme Court.
- We are striking with extreme reluctance and keeping our fingers crossed that somebody can pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the problem.
- The finance minister seems to have pulled a rabbit out of the hat - reducing the tax rate and keeping the fiscal deficit under check at the same time.
- All musicians understand that even after years of musical scholarship, in the end, composing successfully is a lot like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
- But anytime the Minister for Finance was in trouble, he usually pulled a rabbit out of the hat to ensure the books balanced close to what he had predicted on Budget Day.
- A tall order, in particular for the seniors, but with victory at this level long overdue don't be at all surprised if the team pulls a rabbit out of the hat in the guise of a victory that would send us careering into the semi final.
- As if pulling a rabbit out of a hat, a brand new state of the art television centre was being planned for west London.
- You turn around, you got the victim's family right behind you waiting on you to pull a rabbit out of the hat and make it all good.
thank your mother for the rabbits A catchphrase used as a farewell. see you tomorrow and thank your mother for the rabbits Example sentencesExamples - Nana would shout a friendly ‘Bye!‘ and then utter, under her breath, ‘and thank your mother for the rabbits!’
- Thanks for the lift and thank your mother for the rabbits.
- Once the specifications have been read or the bike test ridden, game over; thank your mother for the rabbits and we'll see you in a couple of months for a complimentary service.
- I'm out of here, thank you boys, and thank your mother for the rabbits.
- I held onto the position for so many years and then was turfed out without so much as a 'Thank your mother for the rabbits'.
- Bon voyage and thank your mother for the rabbits!
Derivatives adjective ˈrabɪtiˈræbədi There - munching on a pot plant, stuffing his insolent rabbity face. Example sentencesExamples - The playwright's rabbity, put-upon Everyloser is a clock-tower sniper in the making; a weird, nervous, socially maladjusted little knot of nerves riddled with neuroses, delusions and obsessive-compulsions.
- He paused, his black, rabbity eyes examining the audience.
Origin Late Middle English: apparently from Old French (compare with French dialect rabotte 'young rabbit'), perhaps of Dutch origin (compare with Flemish robbe). We think of rabbits as being as much part of the language as of the countryside, but the rabbit was introduced to Britain by the Normans in the 12th century to provide meat and fur. The name is not recorded until the late 14th century, when it meant particularly a young animal of this kind. Before that, rabbits were known as conies. In 16th-century slang a coney was what we would now call a mark—someone to cheat or rob, and doing so was known as ‘coney-catching’. We are not sure where rabbit comes from, but it seems to have come into English from Old French, related to French dialect rabotte meaning ‘young rabbit’. It may be of Dutch origin and have a link with Flemish robbei ‘rabbit’. To breed like rabbits is to reproduce prolifically, like the animal itself. This view of rabbits is of quite long standing. In 1868 Queen Victoria explained why she could not be too excited by acquiring a fourteenth grandchild. ‘It seems to me’ she wrote to her eldest daughter ‘to go on like the rabbits in Windsor Park!’ A person who chatters incessantly is sometimes said to ‘rabbit on’. This expression comes from mid 20th-century rhyming slang, in which rabbit and pork means ‘talk’. See also bunny
Rhymes Babbitt, cohabit, habit, rabbet Definition of rabbit in US English: rabbitnounˈræbətˈrabət 1A burrowing, gregarious, plant-eating mammal with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail. Family Leporidae: several genera and species, in particular the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet or raised for food Example sentencesExamples - Appearances were put in by eastern chipmunks, gray squirrels, a rabbit and our new resident woodchuck.
- English landowners introduced the European rabbit to the continent in 1859, seeking game animals for sport hunting.
- The chances of survival for South Africa's most endangered mammal, the riverine rabbit, looks even more desperate than has commonly been feared.
- The magnificent cats are taking their natural prey, such as deer and rabbits, but discovering also that sheep and cattle and goats are easier to catch.
- Elsewhere, disappearing rabbits can signal declining health of grassland and sagebrush ecosystems.
- The next day she found the white rabbit still had no food or water.
- After all, to a shooting man the only good rabbit is a dead rabbit.
- The large, ever growing incisors in both rabbits and rodents do not undergo functional replacement.
- Deer, hares, rabbits, mice, rats, pigeons, crows and many insects have to be ‘controlled’ in order for these crops to thrive.
- They take other small rodents, shrews, rabbits, gophers, bats, and muskrats as well.
- Most of the animals that participate in the program are dogs and cats - the occasional rabbit and guinea pig are introduced from time to time.
- Indeed, meat and pelts are a resource, but rabbits also destroy crops.
- In other words, the Amami rabbit has been isolated for so long from other rabbits and hares, including the volcano rabbit, that they are scarcely kin.
- It is a patient bird, quite content to sit for hours at a time until a young rabbit, a rat or a mouse chances to pass beneath it.
- Deer, rabbits and foxes came racing out of the woods.
- Two new extinct species are named (a rabbit and squirrel) and two of the mustelids may represent extinct new species as well.
- The rabbit was sitting up on its hind legs, still staring at her.
- Rodents (except the groundhog) and members of the rabbit or hare families are rarely infected with rabies.
- They mostly eat rodents, eastern cottontail rabbits, insects, and fruit.
- Foxes, rabbits, harvest mice, house mice, dormice, shrews, weasels, and voles all depend on the hedgerows as a place to breed, hunt or shelter.
- 1.1 The flesh of the rabbit as food.
Example sentencesExamples - My recipe for today is an old Australian country recipe for rabbit pie.
- The game selection in my dish included venison, rabbit and pigeon.
- I sampled a tender saddle of rabbit, wrapped in fatty Portuguese bacon and doused in a bubbly mustard emulsion.
- The substantial plate of rabbit was beautifully tender and came with the sort of gloriously rich sauce that you can feel furring up your arteries as you eat.
- Sturdier ones, such as lavender, can be stuffed into chicken or rabbit before roasting, and then discarded later.
- Cretan cuisine centres mainly on chicken, pork, lamb, rabbit or fish, served in a variety of non-spicy sauces.
- This weekend's patrons can expect to be served shrimp bisque or rabbit pie with bay-leaf juice.
- If local meat eaters all got hooked on home-grown rabbit, imagine the effect on our food import bill.
- My other food friend was excited by the presence of rabbit on the menu.
- The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb.
- Add the chicken and rabbit and cook until golden brown, about five minutes.
- From every kitchen in the village arose the most delicious aromas: apple pies, rabbit and chicken pies, fairy cakes, pancakes.
- My main course - confit of wild rabbit with Savoy cabbage and bacon with garlic and parsley mash - looked delectable.
- Exotic meats such as rabbit, venison and wild boar are available, in addition to countless varieties of sausages.
- Wild rabbit has a much darker flesh than farmed rabbit, but both are extremely versatile and, because of the price, you can afford to experiment.
- Fuller Pinot styles go well with poached or grilled salmon, foie gras, charcuterie, rabbit, hare, boar and ham.
- I scoffed everything my mother put in front of me - plate-sized Yorkshire puddings, meat and potato pie, rabbit and dumplings, the lot.
- Like lamb cutlets, rabbit joints seem to be made for holding in your hands.
- The rabbit ballotine was so plain as to be almost unpleasant.
- Hot Cross Bunny turns out to be a recipe for curried rabbit that includes a shot of fiery Thai red curry paste.
- 1.2 The fur of the rabbit.
Example sentencesExamples - Typical usage is a simple trim on a hood or wrap scarf and the fur might just as easily be rabbit as mink.
- There were platform shoes, rabbit coats, sausage curls and blue eye shadow - and the women weren't a pretty sight either.
- 1.3 A hare.
- 1.4US A runner who acts as pacesetter in the first laps of a race.
verbˈræbətˈrabət [no object]1usually as noun rabbitingHunt rabbits. locate the area where you can go rabbiting Example sentencesExamples - This was it, Evelyn recalls thinking, everything would go back to how it used to be; they would go rabbiting in the Phoenix Park, take trips in the car and visit the strawberry beds.
- I wanted to go out rabbiting with Oscar, but you've been gone ages and now he's gone to sleep.
- Hunting with dogs would ban a number of less well-known bloodsports, like hare coursing, mink hunting, rabbiting with terriers.
- It does, however, need plenty of exercise and will enjoy a days rabbiting, should the opportunity arise.
- Their excuse, said Mr Evans, was that they were visiting Cumbria for rabbiting and ferreting - an implausible explanation at a time when people were not allowed on to farmland because of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
2British informal Talk at length, especially about trivial matters. stop rabbiting on, will you, and go to bed! Example sentencesExamples - There is nothing in Part 1 about pensions, schools, holidays, or whatever he was rabbiting on about.
- Given half a chance, she's rabbiting passionately about cultural strategies, architectural policies and the thorny problem of getting teenage girls into sport.
- She was in the kitchen when I arrived, simultaneously rabbiting into a mobile phone while watching a soap opera on television.
- The rest were rabbiting on about share prices, company takeovers, fashion accessories, holiday destinations or some such guff.
- She is rabbiting on about antibiotics and bacterial resistance, which have nothing to do with the financial review debate.
- Some of you may remember, in the dim and distant recesses of your cobwebbed memory, that last week I was rabbiting on about my son's chums and their abundance of confidence when it came to chit-chatting with adults.
- As she made her grateful escape, Mum is rabbiting on, ‘I hope she's got a good deodorant on a day like this.’
- While he was rabbiting on about how we would jump off the cliffs at Barnageeragh, I slipped quietly away.
- I'm starting to rabbit on now, so I'll stop there.
- Our mate Robbo came over here for a few weeks last year and when he got back he couldn't stop rabbiting on about the place.
- He answered the shop phone and an executive-type started rabbiting on about buying a laptop computer.
Synonyms talk, gossip, chatter, chitter-chatter, speak, converse, have a conversation, engage in conversation, tittle-tattle, prattle, jabber, jibber-jabber, babble, prate, go on, run on 3informal Move quickly; run away. he rabbited as soon as he saw us coming Example sentencesExamples - Frank, why did you rabbit?
- Carlos wants to know why they rabbited and did someone tip them off.
- I noticed another junkie watching me: he was trying to decide whether to rabbit or freeze.
- What had sent James rabbiting off to Bedfordshire when Mr. Turnbull was supposed to have gone?
- A rushing in the bushes to her left let her know the Doolittle boys had rabbited.
- I spotted him, and he rabbited and abandoned the car.
Phrases informal Reproduce prolifically. Example sentencesExamples - Yes, you would get the impression that conditions in the United States would lead to people breeding like rabbits.
- Indeed, the main reason for the continued increase in world population is, in the words of a UN consultant, ‘not that people suddenly started breeding like rabbits; it's just that they stopped dying like flies’ .
- The only thing that keeps the system going is the ability of the prey to - for lack of a better analogy - breed like rabbits.
- The problem is, the things breed like rabbits, if we can mix our mammalian metaphors.
- He is trying to prevent bunnies breeding like rabbits.
- ‘They're far less messy to keep than pigs,’ he explained, ‘live happily on seaweed, and best of all, breed like rabbits.’
- As for those damned geese, covering our footpaths with droppings, the things breed like rabbits and, on more than one occasion, have stopped traffic as they saunter across our roads.
pull (or bring) a rabbit out of the (or a) hat Do something unexpected but ingeniously effective in response to a problem. everyone is waiting to see if the king can pull a rabbit out of the hat and announce a ceasefire the Finance Minister pulled a few rabbits out of the hat to balance the Budget last year Example sentencesExamples - The finance minister seems to have pulled a rabbit out of the hat - reducing the tax rate and keeping the fiscal deficit under check at the same time.
- We are striking with extreme reluctance and keeping our fingers crossed that somebody can pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the problem.
- Kind of like pulling a rabbit out of the hat, only with the Supreme Court.
- But the man famed for his patience and perseverance as much as his ability to conjure up the unlikeliest of big name signings, says he still has time to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
- All musicians understand that even after years of musical scholarship, in the end, composing successfully is a lot like pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
- Like pulling a rabbit out of a hat, the President magically placed battlefield responsibility in the hands of the battle commanders.
- But anytime the Minister for Finance was in trouble, he usually pulled a rabbit out of the hat to ensure the books balanced close to what he had predicted on Budget Day.
- As if pulling a rabbit out of a hat, a brand new state of the art television centre was being planned for west London.
- You turn around, you got the victim's family right behind you waiting on you to pull a rabbit out of the hat and make it all good.
- A tall order, in particular for the seniors, but with victory at this level long overdue don't be at all surprised if the team pulls a rabbit out of the hat in the guise of a victory that would send us careering into the semi final.
Origin Late Middle English: apparently from Old French (compare with French dialect rabotte ‘young rabbit’), perhaps of Dutch origin (compare with Flemish robbe). |