Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

rabbity

  • a word derived from rabbit.
    rabbit
    noun
    any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Populating the ridge and surrounding slopes are herds of gazellelike creatures called guanacos; viscachas, marmotlike rodents with rabbity ears; burros; and hawks.

From New York Times Apr. 18, 2023

Cumberbatch and Foy manage to find purchase as two misfits in love, alternately rabbity and wide-eyed in a private world of shyness and mutual understanding.

From Washington Post Oct. 20, 2021

We’re so quiet I can hear my own quick, scared, rabbity breaths, and as I revel in my own fear I realize they’re right.

From Slate Aug. 9, 2015

She wanted a career as a model, and had the starved physique that was fashionable in the 60s, but she was tripped up by her rabbity front teeth, here seen poking through her lips.

From The Guardian Jan. 9, 2011

Looking over at him, I notice his flushed cheeks and rabbity eyes, his droopy brown mustache and bristly eyebrows, the stomach that protrudes from the bottom of his vest like a barely hidden balloon.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline