rabbiting
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Jay also "enjoyed fishing and rabbiting with his dad" and helped looking after the family pets, which included lurchers, ferrets and a bearded dragon.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
After being arrested, Taylor, who defended himself in court, initially claimed to officers that his only hunting consisted of rabbiting for food.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
For months now, Malcolm Turnbull, Josh Frydenberg, various fossil fuel energy executives and media barrackers like Paul Kelly have been rabbiting on about the “energy trilemma”.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2017
This was apt because all we'd heard about was football for the past day – 5Live even interrupted PMQs for us to hear yet more rabbiting on about Harry Redknapp walking free.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2012
The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals.
From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell
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