one-rabbit

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Frequency: 4.05 in modern English

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verb

To inflict the 1454 famine on.

Transitive verb

"The worst year, 1454, was One Rabbit, the year when the people were “one-rabbited”"
"For four years there was famine. The fourth year was when everyone was “One-Rabbited.”"
"only a horrible drought would have entered the lexicon as “One Rabbiting,”"

Calque of Classical Nahuatl cētōchhuia, from cē tōchtli (“One Rabbit”, the year 1454 in the Aztec calendar) + -huia

one-rabbits (present, singular) one-rabbiting (participle, present) one-rabbited (participle, past) one-rabbited (past) one rabbit (alternative)

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What does one-rabbit mean?

To inflict the 1454 famine on.

Where does one-rabbit come from?

Calque of Classical Nahuatl cētōchhuia, from cē tōchtli (“One Rabbit”, the year 1454 in the Aztec calendar) + -huia

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