Welsh Rabbit

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Welsh Rabbit Cheese melted and spread over buttered toast. The word rabbit is a corruption of rare-bit. "The Welshman he loved toasted cheese, Which made his mouth like a mouse-trap." When Good King Arthur Ruled the Land. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Welsh rabbit

Welsh rabbit is a snack dish, also known as toasted cheese. It is one of the simple pleasures of British cuisine. It is made by grating cheese, blending it with beer or a little milk and butter, seasoning, and spreading the mixture onto hot toast; the whole is then grilled - in the British fashion, i.e. heated briskly from above. (called broiling in North America)

'Welsh rabbit' is a disguised 'Welsh joke.' In a traditional society where even a half-grown stripling could snare a rabbit for the pot, a Welshman was considered (by the English of course), so hopelessly feckless that cheese melted with beer would have to substitute. Victorian and later Recipe books often refer to this dish as "Welsh rarebit". This is a silly euphemism, and all dictionaries agree that it derives from an erroneous folk etymology.

Modern Usage: Welsh Rabbit

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	After the Welsh Rabbit (1913)
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Non-Fiction Usage: Welsh Rabbit

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	RAREBIT, n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau a la financiere is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.
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Modern Translations: Welsh Rabbit

Language		Translations for "Welsh rabbit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		топъл сандвич със сирене (rarebit). (various references)

Greek		φρυγανιά με ψημένο τυρί. (various references)

Pig Latin		elshway abbitray

Russian		гренки с сыром (welsh rabbit 1, welsh rarebit). (various references)

Turkish		peynirli kızarmış ekmek (welsh rarebit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Welsh Rabbit

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-h-i-l-r-s-t-w"
	-2 letters: brawliest, herbalist, wabbliest.
	-3 letters: blastier, blathers, blithers, halberts, librates, shabbier, wabblers, wabblier, waterish, whistler, writable.
	-4 letters: albites, astilbe, bailers, baiters, barbels, barbets, barites, bastile, bathers, bawlers, bawties, bearish, berthas, bestial, bewails, bitable, blaster, blastie, blather, blister, blither, brawest, brawlie, breaths, bristle, hailers, halbert, halites, halters, harslet, hastier, heliast, herbals, hirable, labrets, lathers, lathier.
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