rabbit warren
English
editEtymology
editFrom rabbit + warren (“nest or burrow”).
Noun
editrabbit warren (plural rabbit warrens)
- An underground system of interconnected tunnels occupied by rabbits.
- Synonym: rabbit hole (broadly synonymous)
- Hypernyms: latibulum (obsolete), cuniculus
- Meronym: rabbit hole (precisely meronymous)
- A confusingly labyrinthine environment.
- 2020 November 18, Mike Brown tells Paul Stephen, “I wasn't going to let the Mayor down”, in Rail, page 45:
- "Everybody knows the publicly visible areas. But in the basement, which is a rabbit warren of ageing kit, we need to do something serious. [...]."
Translations
editAn underground system of interconnected tunnels occupied by rabbits
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