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rabbiting

rabbiting is the present participle and gerund of rabbit.

Meaning of rabbit

Verb (1)

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

  1. (intransitive) To hunt rabbits.
  2. (US, intransitive) To flee.
    • The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
    Synonyms:
    run off, scamper, bolt

Verb (2)

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

  1. (UK, 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!

Verb (3)

rabbit

  1. Confound; damn; drat.
    • LORD D. There, Dick, d'ye hear how the tutorer talks? oh rabbit it! he can ladle you out of latin by the quart;—and grunts greek like a pig.1797, George Colman, The Heir at Law

See all 15 meanings of rabbit

Noun

rabbiting (plural rabbitings)

  1. A hunt for rabbits.
    • Periodically there are rabbitings here, which usually yield a good result. Then all the normal life of the wood seems to be disturbed, paralysed. Not only the hunted rabbits, but the birds are scared, and go flying wildly in all directions; […]1893, Alexander Hay Japp, Hours in My Garden: And Other Nature-sketches, page 90

Forms of rabbiting

Verb
alternative formrabbitting
Noun
pluralrabbitings

Phrases with rabbiting

Questions about rabbiting

What does rabbiting mean?
Rabbiting means a hunt for rabbits.
What is rabbiting the present participle and gerund of?
Rabbiting is the present participle and gerund of rabbit.
What part of speech is rabbiting?
Rabbiting is a noun.
What is the plural of rabbiting?
The plural of rabbiting is rabbitings.

Words near rabbiting in the dictionary

  1. rabbithole
  2. rabbitholes
  3. rabbitholey
  4. rabbithood
  5. rabbitiness
  6. rabbiting
  7. rabbiting on
  8. rabbitings
  9. rabbitish
  10. rabbitkind
  11. Rabbitland

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