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Welsh rarebit

Welsh rarebit noun: a dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.

Noun

Welsh rarebit (countable and uncountable, plural Welsh rarebits)

  1. A dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.
    • Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind

Synonyms of Welsh rarebit

Forms of Welsh rarebit

pluralWelsh rarebits

Origin of Welsh rarebit

Corruption of Welsh rabbit. First attested by Francis Grose in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785; he erroneously marked Welsh rabbit as a corruption (inverting the historical order); this idea may have originated with him, or been widespread at the time.

Words formed from Welsh rarebit

Questions about Welsh rarebit

What does Welsh rarebit mean?
Welsh rarebit means a dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.
What part of speech is Welsh rarebit?
Welsh rarebit is a noun.
What is the plural of Welsh rarebit?
The plural of Welsh rarebit is Welsh rarebits.

Words near Welsh rarebit in the dictionary

  1. Welsh ponies
  2. Welsh pony
  3. Welsh poppy
  4. Welsh rabbit
  5. Welsh rabbits
  6. Welsh rarebit
  7. Welsh rarebits
  8. Welsh Sheep Dog
  9. Welsh Sheepdog
  10. Welsh Sheepdogs
  11. Welsh Springer Spaniel

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