a small furry animal with long ears, a short tail, and strong back legs that lives in burrows and eats plants
The children laughed as a rabbit hopped across the lawn.
Grandpa showed me how a rabbit leaves footprints in the fresh snow.
✦ Middle English from Old French ‘rabotte’, of uncertain origin.
to talk for a long time about unimportant things, often boring the listener
She kept rabbiting on about her new phone during dinner.
Please stop rabbiting and listen to the instructions.
✦ 20th-century British slang, from Cockney rhyming slang 'rabbit and pork' meaning 'talk'.
