rabbit

Etymology 1
From, , from Anglo-, from dialectal , probably a diminutive of or , of uncertain origin; possibly some  verb, maybe ,  is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See.

Related forms include 🇨🇬 and in 🇨🇬), coming via 🇨🇬 (reflected nowadays as 🇨🇬), from  ; also 🇨🇬,, and the later 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, borrowed into 🇨🇬.

Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for , "vulva" (compare and ).

Noun

 * 1) A mammal of the family, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
 * 2)  The meat from this animal.
 * 3)  The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
 * 4) 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.
 * 5)  A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
 * 6)  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.
 * 7) Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
 * 8) A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
 * 9) * 2012, Joseph Cerny, Nuclear Spectroscopy and Reactions 40-A (part 1, page 249)
 * This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.
 * 1) A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
 * 2) * 2012, Joseph Cerny, Nuclear Spectroscopy and Reactions 40-A (part 1, page 249)
 * This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.
 * 1) * 2012, Joseph Cerny, Nuclear Spectroscopy and Reactions 40-A (part 1, page 249)
 * This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.

Synonyms

 * (hypocoristic, colloquial, pet name)
 * (hypocoristic, colloquial, pet name)
 * , (dialect)

Translations

 * Achi: imul
 * Adyghe: тхьэкӏумэкӏэхьы
 * Afrikaans: ,
 * Aguaruna: wapuhuš
 * Ainu: イセポ
 * Akatek: txitx
 * Alabama: chokfi
 * Albanian: lepur i gropave,, lepur i butë
 * Alutiiq: uskaanaq
 * Apache:
 * Western Apache: gah
 * Arabic: أرنب
 * Egyptian Arabic: ارنب
 * Moroccan Arabic: قنية
 * Aragonese: coniello, lapín
 * Aramaic:
 * Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܢܒ݂ܵܐ, ܟܸܪܘܝܼܫ
 * Classical Syriac: ܐܪܢܒܐ, ܠܐܓܘܣ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ljepuri,, ljepur
 * Assamese: শহা, শহাপহু
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: ҡуян
 * Basque:
 * Bau Bidayuh: biruog brana
 * Belarusian: трус, кро́лік, трусі́ха
 * Bengali: ,
 * Blackfoot: aahtsista
 * Breton: ,
 * Brunei Malay: arnab
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: koneho
 * Central Dusun: labit
 * Central Melanau: tikuih belada, belabau belada
 * Central Sierra Miwok: ṭós·ewe-
 * Chechen: пхьагал
 * Cherokee: ᏥᏍᏚ
 * Cheyenne: vóhkóóhe
 * Chichewa: kalulu
 * Chickasaw: chokfi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 兔仔, 白兔
 * Dungan: тўзы, тўр
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Chuvash: кролик
 * Comanche: tabu
 * Coptic:
 * Bohairic: ϧⲁⲣⲁϭⲱⲟⲩⲧⲥ, ⲣⲁⲧⲫⲁⲧ
 * Sahidic: ⲥⲁⲣⲁϭⲱⲟⲩϣ
 * Cornish: konin
 * Corsican: cunigliulu
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dena'ina: hvaya
 * Dutch:
 * Dzongkha: རི་བོང
 * Eastern Arrernte: rapite
 * Esperanto: kuniklo
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: fɔmizi
 * Faroese: kanin
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Friulian: cunin
 * Galician:
 * Gamilaraay: bina gaarr
 * Georgian: ბოცვერი,
 * German:, ,
 * Alemannic German: Chünel
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: δασύπους, λεβηρίς, κύνικλος
 * Greenlandic: kaniina, ukalinnguaq
 * Gujarati: સસલું
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: ख़रगोश,, सुस्सा, ,
 * Hopi: taavo
 * Hungarian:, házi nyúl
 * Hunsrik: Kaninche
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: kroolikka, kanini
 * Interlingua: conilio
 * Inuktitut: ᐅᑲᓕᐊᑦᓯᐊᖅ
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kaingang: nhinsu
 * Kala Lagaw Ya:
 * Kannada:
 * Kashubian: trus
 * Kazakh: ор қоян, үй қояны, қоян
 * Khmer: ,
 * Komi-Permyak: кӧч
 * Korean:
 * Kriol:
 * Kumyk: кролик, уьй къоян
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کەروێشک
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: conicio
 * Ladino: konejo
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: truss
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: trusis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Livonian: kuodkõps, truš
 * Low German:
 * Low German: Kanink, Kaninken
 * Lü: ᦂᦎᦻᧈ
 * Lutshootseed: k'ʷəčəldiʔ
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: зајак
 * Malagasy:
 * Malay:, kelinci, kucing belanda, , tapai, terwelu
 * Jawi:, کلينچي, کوچيڠ بلندا, کويلو, تاڤاي, ترويلو
 * Malayalam: മുയല്‍
 * Maltese: fenek
 * Manchu: ᡤᡡᠯᠮᠠᡥᡡᠨ
 * Manx: conning
 * Maori:
 * Marathi: ससा, सशी
 * Maricopa: xalyaw
 * Mi'kmaq: apli'gmuj
 * Mirandese: coneilho
 * Mon:
 * Mongolian:
 * Montagnais: uapush
 * Nahuatl:
 * Central: tochtli, tochin
 * Central Huasteca: koatochi, koatochij
 * Classical: tochtli
 * Western Huasteca: kuatochi
 * Nanai: гормахон
 * Navajo: gah
 * Nepali:
 * Norman: lapîn
 * Northern Sami: kaniidna
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * O'odham: tohbi
 * Occitan: ,
 * Ojibwe: waabooz
 * Old English: hara
 * Old Tupi: tapiti
 * Omaha-Ponca: mashchíⁿge
 * Oroqen: tʊkʃakɪ
 * Ossetian: крoлик
 * Ottoman Turkish: آطه طاوشانی
 * Paipai: xlo
 * Pashto: سوۍ
 * Pawnee: párus
 * Persian:
 * Pintupi-Luritja:
 * Pitjantjatjara: malu
 * Plains Cree: ᐚᐳᐢ
 * Plautdietsch: Hos
 * Polish:, , , truś
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਖ਼ਰਗੋਸ਼
 * Purepecha: auani
 * Quechua: quwi
 * Romani: śośoj, śośni
 * Romanian:, iepure de vizuină
 * Romansch: cunigl
 * Russian: ,
 * S'gaw Karen: ပဒဲ
 * Samoan: lapiti
 * Samogitian: triošis, trioškis, kralėks
 * Sangisari: خرقوش
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Sardinian: cunillu, cacciappu
 * Scots: kinnen
 * Scottish Gaelic: coineanach, rabaid, coinean
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зе̑ц, ку̀нӣћ
 * Roman:, kùnīć
 * Shan:
 * Shoshone: kamme, kammu
 * Sicilian:
 * Silesian: mycek
 * Sinhalese: රට හාවෝ
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: ,
 * Somali:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: karnikel, kralik
 * Upper Sorbian: nukl
 * Southern Altai: койон, кролик
 * South Slavey: gah
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, buot, dagang-taingahan
 * Tai Nüa: ᥙᥣᥒ ᥖᥣᥭᥰ
 * Tajik:
 * Talysh: həvuş
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: pȉwéna
 * Tat: xərquş
 * Tatar: йорт куяны,
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: རི་བོང, ཡོས
 * Tigrinya: ማንቲለ
 * Tooro: akame
 * Torres Strait Creole:
 * Tswana: mmutla
 * Turkish:, , kuyan
 * Turkmen: towşan
 * Tuvan: тоолай
 * Tz'utujil: umul
 * Tzotzil: t'ul
 * Ukrainian: кріль,, трусь
 * Urdu: خرگوش, ششک, سسا
 * Uyghur: توشقان
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Venetian: cunicio
 * Vietnamese:
 * Vilamovian: kyngel
 * Volapük:
 * Voro: jänes
 * Votic: jänez
 * Walloon:, , conin
 * Warlpiri: yurapiti
 * Welsh:
 * West Flemish: keun
 * West Frisian: knyn
 * Wolof: njomboor
 * Yagnobi: харгуш
 * Yakut: хоруолук
 * Yiddish: האָז, קיניגל, קראָליק
 * Zazaki: arwéş, harwêş
 * Zhuang: duzdoq, doq
 * Zulu: unogwaja


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: kaniturkis,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Korean: ,
 * Mongolian: туулайн арьс,
 * Polish:
 * Scottish Gaelic: coineanach, rabaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: зечевина
 * Roman:
 * Volapük: kroligapläd


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: huono lyöjä
 * Zazaki: arwêşek

Verb

 * 1)  To hunt rabbits.
 * 2)  To flee.

Synonyms

 * : run off, scamper, bolt

Translations

 * Finnish: olla kanijahdissa
 * Zazaki: śeydê arwêşi

Etymology 2
From Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork, to talk.

Verb

 * 1)  To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
 * Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
 * 1) * 1941 They Die with their Boots On, Gerald Kersh, William Heinemann Ltd., London.
 * To Barker, a row is a Bull-an'-a-Cow, a suit is a Whistle or Whistle-an'-flute, a kid is a Gord-Forbid ; a car is a Jam, or Jam-Jar ; talk is 'Rabbit , or Rabbit-an'-Pork ; beer is Pig's-Ear &hellip; and so on, up and down the language
 * To Barker, a row is a Bull-an'-a-Cow, a suit is a Whistle or Whistle-an'-flute, a kid is a Gord-Forbid ; a car is a Jam, or Jam-Jar ; talk is 'Rabbit , or Rabbit-an'-Pork ; beer is Pig's-Ear &hellip; and so on, up and down the language

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:prattle

Derived terms

 * rabbit on
 * don't half rabbit

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: pälättää,
 * Maori: pahupahu
 * Scots: blether

Etymology 3
Perhaps a corruption of.

Verb

 * 1) Confound; damn; drat.