English Online Dictionary. What means rabbit? What does rabbit mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: răb'it, IPA(key): /ˈɹæbɪt/
- Rhymes: -æbɪt
- (General Australian, weak vowel merger) enPR: răb'ət, IPA(key): /ˈɹæbət/
- Homophone: rabbet
Etymology 1
From Middle English rabet, from Middle French dialect (compare French dialect rabbotte, rabouillet (“baby rabbit”)), from Walloon robète, diminutive of Middle Dutch robbe (“rabbit; seal”) (compare Dutch rob (“rabbit”), rob (“seal [sea mammal]”)), from Middle Low German robbe (“seal”) (compare dialectal Low German Rubb, Robb, German Robbe (“seal”)), from rubben (“to rub”). More at rub.
Noun
rabbit (plural rabbits)
- A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
- 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.
- (cricket) A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
- (computing theory) 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.
Synonyms
(animal):
- bunny (hypocoristic, colloquial, pet name)
- bunny rabbit (hypocoristic, colloquial, pet name)
- coney, cony (dialect)
Hyponyms
- bunny rabbit
- jackrabbit
Derived terms
- rabbiter
- rabbity
Related terms
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Verb
rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbitting or rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbitted or rabbited)
- (intransitive) To hunt rabbits.
- (US, intransitive) To flee.
- The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
Synonyms
- (to flee): run off, scamper, bolt
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Etymology 2
From Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork, to talk.
Verb
rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbited)
- (Britain, intransitive) To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
- Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
- Commonly used in the form "to rabbit on"
Synonyms
- (to talk incessantly and childishly): babble, blather, prattle, Thesaurus:chatter, Thesaurus:talk
Translations
See also
- chew the fat
- chew the cud (British)
- shoot the breeze (US)
Hungarian
Etymology
rabbi + -t
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈrɒbːit]
- Hyphenation: rab‧bit
Noun
rabbit
- accusative singular of rabbi