john_amend_all: (cleanlife)
john_amend_all ([personal profile] john_amend_all) wrote in [personal profile] thisbluespirit 2011-02-10 10:30 pm (UTC)

It actually was a Sussex swearword back in the 1870s, according to A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect by the Reverend W. D. Parish:

RABBITS, e.   An ejaculation.
"What the rabbits! Why, it's never you out in such weather as this, surelye!"
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