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rabbitish en · ADJ

Etymology

From rabbit + -ish.

Meanings

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:
   • His claim that "when I scrutinize my rabbitish visual experience, I simply cannot find any basis upon which to erect a distinction between my thinking about rabbits and my thinking about rabbit parts," is simply bad phenomenology, for it is surely the case that we see the rabbitish thing as a rabbit, not as a collection of undetached parts. 2001, Jerome Carl Wakefield, Do Unconscious Mental States Exist?:
   • The possible worlds that make up the proposition expressed by "a rabbit is present at place x at time t" vary widely, but they all have something rabbitish at place x at time t. 1989, Leora Weitzman, Propositional identity and structure in Frege, page 26:

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