Tabby Definition
tăbē
tabby, tabbies
noun
tabbies
A silk taffeta with stripes or wavy markings; watered silk.
Webster's New World
A fabric of plain weave.
American Heritage
A light-colored cat with darker stripes, sometimes of another color.
Webster's New World
Any domestic cat, esp. a female.
Webster's New World
An old maid.
Webster's New World
adjective
Made of, or like, tabby.
Webster's New World
Having dark stripes over gray or brown; brindled.
Webster's New World
verb
To make wavy markings in (silk, etc.)
Webster's New World
pronoun
A diminutive of the female given name Tabitha.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Tabby
Noun
Singular:
tabby
Plural:
tabbiesOrigin of Tabby
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Mid 17th circa French atabis, from Arabic attabi, ultimately from Arabic al-Attabiya, the name of a section of Baghdad, Iraq, which is associated with the manufacture of a certain type of waved silk; see also taffeta, another type of silk whose name derives from the Persian تافته (tâfta, “woven cloth") and shares a similar etymological origin.
From Wiktionary
French tabis from Old French atabis from Medieval Latin attabī from Arabic ‘attābī after al-‘Attābīya , a suburb of Baghdad, Iraq
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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