Welsh rabbit

Welsh rabbit

n. A dish made of melted cheese, milk or cream, seasonings, and sometimes ale, served hot over toast or crackers.

Welsh rabbit

n (Cookery) a savoury dish consisting of melted cheese sometimes mixed with milk, seasonings, etc, on hot buttered toast. Also called: Welsh rarebit or rarebit [C18: a fanciful coinage; rarebit is a later folk-etymological variant]

Welsh′ rab′bit

n. a dish of melted cheese, usu. mixed with ale or beer, served over toast. Also called Welsh′ rare′bit.

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Welsh rabbit - cheese melted with ale or beer served over toastrarebit, Welsh rarebitdish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"