tabby
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- noun
- /ˈtæbi/
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gato atigrado
- The orange tabby cat meows, and Luke glances toward it, standing onstage by the edge of the screen.
- tabby cat
So he says Marxism is the cat, the genus, but then you have a cat, but then you have tigers, lions, leopards, tabby cats are all species of cats.
- So he says Marxism is the cat, the genus, but then you have a cat, but then you have tigers, lions, leopards, tabby cats are all species of cats.
- Big fat pay pay a somewhat portly, portly tabby cat who does not enjoy.
Examples
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The orange tabby cat scratches itself on the leg of the ladder.
Fiction book (2001) -
I have included an orange or yellow tabby in every single book I could possibly have a cat in.
Blog text (23) -
What about that tabby cat?
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I think it was a tabby.
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One featured a yellow tabby cat; the other featured a red ball.
Academic text (2013) -
Tired of that same old gray tabby sleeping on your favorite chair?
Blog text (2) -
All day we basked in jazz while the tabby cat watched out the window.
Fiction book (2002) -
He's a gray tabby.
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A gray tabby, mangy and naked, runs figure eights through her unsteady legs, and the crowd roars.
Fiction book (2001) -
A large orange tabby cat slunk by, heading for the docks and promises of fish.
Synonyms
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A domestic cat with striped or spotted fur often with an M mark on the forehead
A domestic cat with dark stripes like a tiger
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Etymology
Tabby comes from a name for a patterned silk (from Arabic attabiya) that had wavy, 'watered' stripes. People used the same word for cats whose fur looked like that cloth, so tabby now means a cat with striped, spotted, or swirled fur.