Definitions for Tabby

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Tabby tab·by

Spelling: [tab-ee]

IPA: /ˈtæb i/

Tabby is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Tabby (abbty).

Definitions for Tabby

noun

1. a cat with a striped or brindled coat.
2. a domestic cat, especially a female one.
3. a spinster.
4. a spiteful female gossip or tattler.
5. plain weave.
6. a watered silk fabric, or any other watered material, as moreen.
7. (in the southeastern U.S.) a building material composed of ground oyster shells, lime, and sand, mixed with salt water.

adjective

1. striped or brindled.
2. made of or resembling tabby.

verb (used with object)

1. to give a wavy or watered appearance to, as silk.

Origin of Tabby

1630-40; back formation from French tabis (taken as plural), Middle French (a)tabis silk cloth Medieval Latin attābi Arabic ʿattābī, derivative of (al-)ʿAttābīyah, quarter of Baghdad where th

Examples for Tabby

Ah, tabby, what a deal of secret misery there is in the world!

He was puttering with his light and meowing to his tabby cat.

But it's about as nigh to Joe's as 'tis to tabby's, seems to me.

Is not a soft, white-breasted maltese or tabby as attractive?

She needs to have you cuff her ears now and then, that tabby.

I started as though I had seen a tabby pounce down from the rigging!

tabby, the saber-tooth, dabbed playfully at Cooper with his mighty paw.

tabby, old maids are a public nuisance, not to say dangerous.

And of her own accord, tabby never would, had not Zip put her up to it.

Some were white and some were tabby, and all were about the same loathsome age.