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rabbitting

rabbitting 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

Forms of rabbitting

alternative formrabbiting

Questions about rabbitting

What is rabbitting the present participle and gerund of?
Rabbitting is the present participle and gerund of rabbit.

Words near rabbitting in the dictionary

  1. rabbits' feet
  2. rabbitskin
  3. rabbitskins
  4. Rabbitt
  5. rabbitted
  6. rabbitting
  7. rabbittite
  8. Rabbitts
  9. rabbitweed
  10. rabbitwise
  11. rabbitwood

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