rabbit food
1
6.9
- noun
- /ˈræbɪt fud/
- Informal
:
comida de conejo
- After going vegan, he found himself eating a lot of rabbit food, which he jokingly described as bland.
Examples
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All of the meat he ate was deep-fried and consisted mostly of deep-fried filets mignon, and he ate no veggies, calling it "rabbit food."
Fiction book (1996) -
So eat your rabbit food!
Blog text (5) -
That's all they eat is rabbit food.
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Many rescues and breeders feed high-quality rabbit food, and many specifically feed Purina Rabbit Chow Show, which is what she is on.
Blog text (33) -
He complained that his lunch was just a plate of rabbit food, with only salads and vegetables.
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She prefers hearty meals and often jokes that she doesn't want to eat rabbit food exclusively.
Synonyms
5
1.0
A vegetable like a carrot or cucumber that is not cooked
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
rabbit + food
The phrase is directly interpretable from its parts: 'rabbit' + 'food' straightforwardly suggests the kind of food rabbits eat (raw vegetables/salad), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the intended referent. The humorous evaluative nuance (that such food is insubstantial or unappetizing) may require slight pragmatic knowledge, but the core referent is transparently derived from the constituents.
Etymology
Rabbit food is a joking name that comes from the picture of a rabbit eating leaves and grass. So when people call a salad rabbit food, they mean it is small or not filling, like 'light' or a bit 'unappetizing' compared with a bigger meal.