furry thing

furry thing
   British
   a rabbit
   Seamen must not mention rabbits before putting to sea under an old taboo based on the substitution by fraudulent chandlers of rabbit meat, which does not keep, for salt pork, which does.

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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