wabbit

Meanings

Adjective

• Exhausted, tired.

Noun

• A rabbit.
• A self-replicating computer process that (unlike a virus or worm) does not infect host programs or documents and remains on the local computer rather than spreading across networks of computers.

Origin

• Scots wabbit, ultimate origin uncertain.
• Representing pronunciation of rabbit by children and some adults who have trouble saying the English r (the cartoon character Elmer Fudd is a caricature of the latter). Computing sense refers to the ability of rabbits to multiply quickly.