wabbit
Britishadjective
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of wabbit
C19: from earlier wobart withered, feeble
Example Sentences
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Partly this is because his writing often has a genuflecting sense of humor, like when he creeps through the underbrush in Brazil “like Elmer Fudd on a wabbit hunt,” or returns from Denali National Park and writes: “Paging through my notes, I was appalled by their shallowness. ‘
From Salon
After Bugs finds his way to the stage, he puts on a show for the audience while tricking Fudd into believing the wascally wabbit is just another character in the performance.
From Los Angeles Times
There, she worked on Wabbit, a game for the Atari VCS that featured a girl named Billie Sue tasked with saving her vegetable garden from a fluffle of hungry rabbits.
From The Verge
Four years ago, Polygon published a feature that asked what happened to video game pioneer Ban Tran, a Vietnamese woman credited with creating Wabbit, the first console game to feature a named playable female human character.
From The Verge
Elmer Fudd chortles “Kill the wabbit” to the “Ride of the Valkyries” melody as he pursues Bugs Bunny.
From New York Times
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