Welsh rarebit

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast. countable,uncountable
    — Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.

词形变化

Welsh rarebits plural

词源

Corruption of Welsh rabbit. First attested by Francis Grose in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785; he erroneously marked Welsh rabbit as a corruption (inverting the historical order); this idea may have originated with him, or been widespread at the time.
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