Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - rabbit
Rabbit
rabbit
n. & v. --n. 1 a any of various burrowing gregarious plant-eating mammals of the hare family, esp. Oryctolagus cuniculus, with long ears and a short tail, varying in colour from brown in the wild to black and white, and kept as a pet or for meat. b US a hare. c the fur of the rabbit. 2 Brit. colloq. a poor performer in any sport or game. --v.intr. (rabbited, rabbiting) 1 hunt rabbits. 2 (often foll. by on, away) Brit. colloq. talk excessively or pointlessly; chatter (rabbiting on about his holiday). Phrases and idioms rabbit punch a short chop with the edge of the hand to the nape of the neck. rabbit warren an area in which rabbits have their burrows, or are kept for meat etc. Derivatives rabbity adj. Etymology: ME perh. f. OF: cf. F dial. rabotte, Walloon rob{egrave}te, Flem. robbe
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I. noun (plural ~ or ~s) Usage: often attributive see: rub Date: 14th century any of a family (Leporidae) of long-eared short-tailed lagomorph mammals with long hind legs:, any of various lagomorphs that are born furless, blind, and helpless, that are sometimes gregarious, and that include especially the cottontails of the New World and a small Old World mammal (Oryctolagus cuniculus) that is the source of various domestic breeds, hare, the pelt of a ~, Welsh ~, 4. a figure of a ~ sped mechanically along the edge of a dog track as an object of pursuit, a runner in a long-distance race who sets a fast pace for the field in the first part of the race, ~y adjective II. intransitive verb Date: 1846 to hunt ~s, ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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