Brewer's: Welsh Rabbit

Cheese melted and spread over buttered toast. The word rabbit is a corruption of rare-bit.

The Welshman he loved toasted cheese, Which made his mouth like a mouse-trap.

When Good King Arthur Ruled the Land.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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