Tabby

Quick meaning: Tabby is a noun meaning (countable) A brindled cat.

Meaning

(countable) A brindled cat.

More Meanings

1. (countable, archaic) An old maid or gossip.
2. Having a wavy or watered appearance.
3. Brindled; diversified in color.
4. (transitive) To give a wavy or watered appearance to (a textile).
5. (countable, uncountable) A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
6. (uncountable) A concrete mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
7. (chiefly Australia, slang) A woman, irrespective of age, but often used for a young, attractive woman.

Example Sentences

a tabby waistcoat

A wise tabby, a blinking sphinx, watched from her warm sill. Pity to disturb them. Mohammed cut a piece out of his mantle not to wake her.

"Ay, ay; she wore a flowered silk tabby sacque, on band days," said Toole, who had an eye and a corner in his memory for female costume, "a fine showy—I remember."

‘The kids go for a drive in a borrowed car, park on another street between the corner lamps, and then there’s ructions because some little tabby gets up the stick.’

Word Forms

• tabbies
• tabbier
• tabbiest
• tabbying
• tabbied

Synonyms for tabby

Depending on context, synonyms include queen, brindle, brindled, patterned, brinded.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brinded, brindled, brindle, queen, patterned, tammy.

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