"Welsh rarebit" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Welsh rarebits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "en:Foods",
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            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "buck rarebit"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind:",
          "text": "Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast."
      ],
      "id": "en-Welsh_rarebit-en-noun-nGCqZDqb",
      "links": [
        [
          "dish",
          "dish"
        ],
        [
          "cheese",
          "cheese"
        ],
        [
          "melted",
          "melted"
        ],
        [
          "ale",
          "ale"
        ],
        [
          "toast",
          "toast"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "rarebit"
        },
        {
          "word": "Welsh rabbit"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "croque galois"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Welsh rarebit"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Welsh rarebit"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "buck rarebit"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Welsh rarebits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        "en:Foods"
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        {
          "ref": "1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind:",
          "text": "Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.",
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      ],
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        "A dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast."
      ],
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          "dish",
          "dish"
        ],
        [
          "cheese",
          "cheese"
        ],
        [
          "melted",
          "melted"
        ],
        [
          "ale",
          "ale"
        ],
        [
          "toast",
          "toast"
        ]
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
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      "wikipedia": [
        "Welsh rarebit"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "rarebit"
    },
    {
      "word": "Welsh rabbit"
    }
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      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "croque galois"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Welsh rarebit"
}