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one-rabbit

one-rabbit verb: to inflict the 1454 famine on.

Verb

one-rabbit (third-person singular simple present one-rabbits, present participle one-rabbiting, simple past and past participle one-rabbited)

  1. (transitive) To inflict the 1454 famine on.
    • The worst year, 1454, was One Rabbit, the year when the people were “one-rabbited”1989, Louise M. Burkhart, The Slippery Earth: Nahua-Christian Moral Dialogue in Sixteenth-Century Mexico, University of Arizona Press
    • For four years there was famine. The fourth year was when everyone was “One-Rabbited.”1997, Arthur J. O. Anderson, Susan Schroeder (eds. and trans.), Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahua Altepetl in Central...

Forms of one-rabbit

third-person singular presentone-rabbits
present participleone-rabbiting
past participleone-rabbited
pastone-rabbited
alternative formOne-Rabbit
alternative formone rabbit
alternative formOne Rabbit

Origin of one-rabbit

Calque of Classical Nahuatl cētōchhuia, from cē tōchtli (“One Rabbit”, the year 1454 in the Aztec calendar) + -huia

Questions about one-rabbit

What does one-rabbit mean?
One-rabbit means to inflict the 1454 famine on.
What part of speech is one-rabbit?
One-rabbit is a verb.
What is the past tense of one-rabbit?
The past tense of one-rabbit is one-rabbited.

Words near one-rabbit in the dictionary

  1. one-pump
  2. one-pumped
  3. one-pumping
  4. one-pumps
  5. one-quarter
  6. one-rabbit
  7. one-rabbited
  8. one-rabbiting
  9. one-rabbits
  10. one-reeler
  11. one-reelers

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