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rarebit
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun rarebit has 1 sense
- rarebit(n = noun.food) welsh rabbit, welsh rarebit - cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast; Array is a kind of dish
CIDE DICTIONARY
rarebit, n.
A dainty morsel; a Welsh rabbit. See Welsh rabbit , under Rabbit. [1913 Webster]
DEVIL 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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