"rabbitish" meaning in English

See rabbitish in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more rabbitish [comparative], most rabbitish [superlative]
Etymology: rabbit + -ish Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|rabbit|ish}} rabbit + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} rabbitish (comparative more rabbitish, superlative most rabbitish)
  1. Characteristic of or similar to a rabbit; rabbit-like.
    Sense id: en-rabbitish-en-adj-Q6iINZI8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish

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          "ref": "1910, John Ruskin -, The Works of John Ruskin - Volume 12, page 64",
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          "ref": "2001, Jerome Carl Wakefield, Do Unconscious Mental States Exist?",
          "text": "His claim that \"when I scrutinize my rabbitish visual experience, I simply cannot find any basis upon which to erect a distinction between my thinking about rabbits and my thinking about rabbit parts,\" is simply bad phenomenology, for it is surely the case that we see the rabbitish thing as a rabbit, not as a collection of undetached parts.",
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