Welsh rarebit

noun

A dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.

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rarebitWelsh rabbit
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Meanings

nounWelsh rarebit (countable and uncountable, plural Welsh rarebits)

plural Welsh rarebits

  1. countableuncountableA dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.

    Afterwards there was apple-pie and cream and a welsh rarebit. Peregrine said it was almost up to prison fare.

    1956, Delano Ames, chapter 25, in Crime out of Mind

    Synonyms: rarebit, Welsh rabbit

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA dish of cheese melted with a little ale and served on toast.

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rarebitWelsh rabbit

More synonyms by meaning

nouncheese melted with ale or beer served over toast

Similar
Welsh rabbitrarebit
Broader
dish
Also see
rarebit

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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.

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Translations

French croque galois
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Polish Welsh rarebit
  • Welsh rarebitTranslations
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APA

Welsh rarebit. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Welsh%20rarebit

MLA

“Welsh rarebit.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Welsh%20rarebit. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Welsh rarebit,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Welsh%20rarebit.

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