Welsh rarebit
nounEtymology 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.
1
A dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.
- Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind:
- Synonyms
- rarebit, Welsh rabbit
- Derived terms
- buck rarebit
- Related terms
- rinktum ditty