## Meanings
1. A small furry animal with long ears and a short tail that lives in burrows.
2. The meat of this animal, eaten as food.
3. To talk on and on about unimportant things.

## Examples
- A wild rabbit hopped across the field and disappeared into the bushes.
- My grandmother used to cook rabbit stew on cold winter days.
- Stop rabbiting on and tell me what actually happened.

## Synonyms
- bunny
- coney
- cony

## Derived Forms
- antelabbit
- antirabbit
- cabbit
- hog-rabbit
- jack-rabbit
- jackrabbit
- nonrabbit
- one-rabbit
- rabbit-eared
- rabbit-foot
- rabbit-hearted
- rabbit-o

## Related Forms
- buck
- cottontail
- doe
- hare
- kitten
- warren

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: rabet
- Root: rabettus
- Root: rabotte
- Root: robbe

## Etymology
From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub. Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe ("rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob (“rabbit", also "seal”)); also Mi…

## AI Etymology
Rabbit comes from Middle English rabet, rabette, from Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe (“rabbit, seal”), of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub. Modern senses include a small furry animal with long ears and a short tail that lives in burrows. and the meat of this animal, eaten as food.. The wider word family includes derivatives such as antelabbit, antirabbit, cabbit, hog-rabbit, jack-rabbit, and jackrabbit and related forms such as buck, cottontail, doe, and hare.

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