Synonyms for rabbits

Grammar : Noun

Spell : rab-it

Phonetic Transcription : ˈræb ɪt

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Définition of rabbits

Origin : late 14c., "young of the coney," from French dialect (cf. Walloon robète), diminutive of Flemish or Middle Dutch robbe "rabbit," of unknown origin. "A Germanic noun with a French suffix" [Liberman]. 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. [Mencken, "The American Language"]
Rabbit punch "chop on the back of the neck" so called from resemblance to a gamekeeper's method of dispatching an injured rabbit. Pulling rabbits from a hat as a conjurer's trick recorded by 1843. Rabbit's foot "good luck charm" first attested 1879, in U.S. Southern black culture. Earlier references are to its use as a tool to apply cosmetic powders.
[N]ear one of them was the dressing-room of the principal danseuse of the establishment, who was at the time of the rising of the curtain consulting a mirror in regard to the effect produced by the application of a rouge-laden rabbit's foot to her cheeks, and whose toilet we must remark, passim, was not entirely completed. ["New York Musical Review and Gazette," Nov. 29, 1856]
Rabbit ears "dipole television antenna" is from 1950. Grose's 1788 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" has "RABBIT CATCHER. A midwife."

noun animal

Example sentences :

A pot pie may be made of ducks, rabbits, squirrels, or venison.
Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie

Do not let it boil, but pour it at once into the dish with the rabbits.
Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie

As, yes—it is sad—all that time wasted and no rabbits caught.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

Then there were cats, and rabbits, and turkeys; all these he must let alone.
Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London

Lay your rabbits in the dish, and let the sauce be poured over them.
Extract from : « The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; » by Charlotte Campbell Bury

I'd back Whip all alone against all the rabbits Squire Murray's got.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 » by Various

Haven't seen any; but the rabbits are awful big ones, some of 'em.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 » by Various

Tell you what, Tad, Whip's the best dog in the world for rabbits.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, October 19, 1880 » by Various

You see, she'll end by making us sleep with all her fowls and rabbits.'
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

Chop some liver of rabbits or fowls, and do it the same as for lemon sauce, with a very little pepper and salt, and some parsley.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

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