rabbitwise

rabbitwise

English

Etymology

rabbit +‎ -wise

Adverb

rabbitwise (not comparable)

1. In the manner of a rabbit.
   • 1844, Bentley's Miscellany (volume 15, page 53)

     […] a starveling cat roasted rabbitwise, or a brace of sparrows deluged in parsley and butter, designated in the bill of fare as pigeons or chickens.

   • 1981, Beth Gutcheon, The New Girls (page 208)

     When headlights appeared, someone would reel in a black string from his hedge, causing a stuffed white sock in the opposite hedge to slide and jerk, rabbitwise, onto the road so that the driver would just catch a gleam of faltering white in his headlights.