@TabForACause to Support the American Dream of the @unitedweDREAM #Rabbit-Tamers (for #HispanicHeritageMonth) | #Coney #Hare #JackRabbit #RabbitPunch #RabbitsFoot #RabbitHole
Maybe they're not 'rabbit-tamers' (either by-training or by-nature); but I've already 'done' "Hispanic" (for Facebook's noting of the 'season'), and "Rabbit" is the meaning of one of its support-pillars.
Today, I 'Tabbed for the Cause' of "United We Dream," an organization I'll discuss below the subscribe-bar.
Tabs for a Caus explains how you can help support UWD (and lots of other charities, all year long) on their sign-up page linked through 'that word' below; but first I want to understand that word better. And I find you understand words better if you look at 'the words at their base' (then going on to look at the words at those words' bases, then the words at those words' bases, etc.-etc. ad infinitum)
The word “Rabbit (\ #RabbitEars (early TV-Antennae, popular |Shoelace-|Tying method (although it might be better-known-as Bunny-|Ears)) #BunnyRabbit #RabbitCatcher (vulgar slang for a Midwife))” is built on ancient words that mean Young #Coney
(that doesn't make sense to me yet; but other than that, Etymonline just gives a) some of the foreign (French, Flemish, Middle Dutch) words for it--robète, robbe--and b) the idea that they describe a |Burrowing |Rodent well-known for its Prolific Breeding, and c) an interesting 'Americanism' ...)
Zoologically speaking, there are no native rabbits in the United States; they are all #hares. But the early colonists, for some unknown reason, dropped the word #hare out of their vocabulary, and it is rarely heard in American speech to this day. When it appears it is almost always applied to the so-called Belgian hare, which, curiously enough, is not a hare at all, but a true rabbit. [Mencken, "The American Language"]
The word "Coney" is built on ancient words that mean 'Small, Hispanic version of the Italian #Hare' (Etymonline says a lot about this; so much that I'll probably come back for more) ... including the fact that Yes, #ConeyIsland is named after the Rodents that were once found there.
The word "Hare (/ #HareBrained #HareLip)" is built on ancient words that mean Gray-Haired (White ... the main difference from Rabbits being that Hares do not burrow ... also related to the verb Hare, meaning "to Harass, |Frighten" #HarumScarum #Harrier).
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