welsh rarebit

1. 1.

   cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast

   SynonymsWelsh rabbitrarebit

   Broaderdish

Questions about welsh rarebit

What does welsh rarebit mean?

welsh rarebit means "cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast".

What is another word for welsh rarebit?

Close synonyms include Welsh rabbit, rarebit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is welsh rarebit a common word?

welsh rarebit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.