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Definition of brer rabbit in English English dictionary
- Any specific rabbit; used to personify a rabbit in a story
BRER RABBIT came pacing down the road, lippity-clippity, clippity-lippity, just as sassy as a jaybird. And then he saw Chester the dog, who might just as well have been Brer Fox.
- The hero of the Uncle Remus stories
who believe that Microsoft actually wants to be broken up (the Brer Rabbit solution),.
- Any trickster, or unusually quick and clever, figure
- the main character in the children's stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Brer Rabbit is a clever rabbit from the South of the US, who always manages to escape from danger or from being caught, usually by running into a brier patch (=group of bushes with sharp points on their branches)
brer rabbit
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brer rab·bitPronunciation
Etymology
() Abbreviation of Brother RabbitResimler
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