Synonyms for tabby

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tab-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtæb i

Top 10 synonyms for tabby

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Définition of tabby

Origin : 1630s, "striped silk taffeta," from French tabis "a rich, watered silk (originally striped)," from Middle French atabis (14c.), from Arabic 'attabiya, from 'Attabiy, a neighborhood of Baghdad where such cloth was first made, named for prince 'Attab of the Omayyad dynasty. Tabby cat, one with a striped coat, is attested from 1690s; shortened form tabby first attested 1774. Sense of "female cat" (1826) may be influenced by the fem. proper name Tabby, a pet form of Tabitha, which was used in late 18c. as slang for "difficult old woman."

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Example sentences :

Is not a soft, white-breasted maltese or tabby as attractive?
Extract from : « Concerning Cats » by Helen M. Winslow

But it's about as nigh to Joe's as 'tis to Tabby's, seems to me.
Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

I started as though I had seen a tabby pounce down from the rigging!
Extract from : « The Rambles of a Rat » by A. L. O. E.

Ah, Tabby, what a deal of secret misery there is in the world!
Extract from : « The Love Affairs of an Old Maid » by Lilian Bell

Tabby, old maids are a public nuisance, not to say dangerous.
Extract from : « The Love Affairs of an Old Maid » by Lilian Bell

Tabby, the saber-tooth, dabbed playfully at Cooper with his mighty paw.
Extract from : « Project Mastodon » by Clifford Donald Simak

Some were white and some were tabby, and all were about the same loathsome age.
Extract from : « The Lock And Key Library » by Various

She needs to have you cuff her ears now and then, that Tabby.
Extract from : « Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends » by Fanny Fern

He was puttering with his light and meowing to his tabby cat.
Extract from : « Wappin' Wharf » by Charles S. Brooks

And of her own accord, Tabby never would, had not Zip put her up to it.
Extract from : « Zip, the Adventures of a Frisky Fox Terrier » by Frances Trego Montgomery

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