Definitions of tabby [ˈtæb i]

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Definition of 'tabby'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tabby
a cat with a striped or brindled coat.

2.  tabby
a domestic cat, esp. a female one.

3.  tabby
a watered silk or taffeta.

4. (adj.) tabby
striped or brindled.

5.  tabby
made of or resembling tabby.

6. (v.t.) tabby
to give a wavy or watered appearance to, as silk.

Etymology: (1630–40; < F tabis (taken as pl.), MF (a)tabis silk cloth < ML attābi < Ar &ain;yattābī, der. of (al-)&ain;Attābīyah, quarter of Baghdad where the silk was first made, lit., the quarter of (Prince) &ain;Attāb)

Definition of 'tabby'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tabby, tabby cat
a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black

2. (adj) tabby, queen
female cat

3. (adj) brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby
having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats

Definition of 'tabby'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) tabby
having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat

2. (adj) tabby
brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat

3. (noun) tabby
a kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering

4. (noun) tabby
a 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

5. (noun) tabby
a brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat

6. (noun) tabby
an old maid or gossip

7. (verb) tabby
to water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc

Translation of 'tabby'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: (alsoˈtabby-cat) a usually grey or brown cat with darker stripes, especially a female one.
Afrikaans: gestreepte kat	Arabic: قِط رَمادي	Bulgarian: котка на сиви/кафяви ивиц
Brazilian: gato malhado	Czech: mourek	German: getigerte Katze
Danish: stribet kat	Greek: γάτα με ραβδωτό τρίχωμα	Spanish: gato atigrado
Estonian: vöödiline (emane) kass	Farsi: گربه خاکستری با راه راه ه	Finnish: juovikas kissa
French: chat tigré, chatte tigrée	Hebrew: חָתוּל מְפוּספַּס	Hindi: धारीदार भूरी बिल्ली
Croatian: tigrasta,šarena mačka	Hungarian: cirmos cica	Indonesian: kucing loreng
Icelandic: grá– eða gulbröndóttur kö	Italian: (gatto tigrato)	Japanese: ぶち猫
Korean: 얼룩고양이	Lithuanian: rainė	Latvian: (svītrains) kaķis, kaķene
Malay: kucing belang	Dutch: gestreepte poes	Norwegian: stripet katt
Polish: bury kot	Persian: گربه خاکستری با راه راه ه	Pashto: كورنۍ پيشىس
Portuguese: gato malhado	Romanian: pisică tigrată	Russian: полосатая кошка
Slovak: strakatá mačka	Slovenian: tigrasta mačka	Serbian: tigrasta mačka
Swedish: strimmig katt	Thai: แมวลายสีน้ำตาลหรือสีเทา	Turkish: tekir kedi
Taiwanese: 灰褐虎斑貓(通常為母貓)	Ukrainian: смугаста кішка	Urdu: بھورے اور گہرے براؤن رنگ
Vietnamese: mèo mướp	Chinese: 斑猫
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