rabbit
Pronunciation: /ˈɹæbɪt/
The English word “rabbit” has 14 meanings listed here.
noun
- A mammal of most genera of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. (Those of the larger kind are instead called hares)
- The meat from this animal.
- The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
- A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
- A very poor batsman, selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
- A batsman who is frequently dismissed by the same bowler (said to be that player's rabbit).
- A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
- Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
- A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
- A vibrator with a shaft and a clitoral stimulator usually shaped like a rabbit's ears.
verb
Etymology
Inherited 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”)…
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