tabby
noun/ˈtæbi/
/ˈtæbi/
(plural tabbies)
(also tabby cat)
- a cat with brown or grey fur marked with dark lines or spotsTopics Animalsc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryTabby is used before these nouns:
- cat
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a kind of silk taffeta, originally striped, later with a watered finish): from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured.
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