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rabbitish

rabbitish adjective: characteristic of or similar to a rabbit; rabbit-like.

Adjective

rabbitish (comparative more rabbitish, superlative most rabbitish)

  1. Characteristic of or similar to a rabbit; rabbit-like.
    • I feel so piggish and rabbitish in eating you out of all your vegetables, that I'm afraid to speak lest it should turn out grunting, and to shake my head for fear of feeling flappy at the ears.1910, John Ruskin -, The Works of John Ruskin - Volume 12, page 64
    • Nevertheless, the fox was right in a way : the rabbit had some kind of rabbitish occupation which did largely temper his agony.1941, Mīkhaīl Evgrafovīch Saltykov, Fables, page 54

Forms of rabbitish

comparativemore rabbitish
superlativemost rabbitish

Origin of rabbitish

From rabbit + -ish.

Questions about rabbitish

What does rabbitish mean?
Rabbitish means characteristic of or similar to a rabbit; rabbit-like.
What part of speech is rabbitish?
Rabbitish is an adjective.

Words near rabbitish in the dictionary

  1. rabbithood
  2. rabbitiness
  3. rabbiting
  4. rabbiting on
  5. rabbitings
  6. rabbitish
  7. rabbitkind
  8. Rabbitland
  9. rabbitless
  10. rabbitlike
  11. rabbitling

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