Definition of tabby in English:

tabby

nounPlural tabbies ˈtabiˈtæbi

1A grey or brownish cat mottled or streaked with dark stripes.
斑猫
Example sentencesExamples
- I noticed two cats curled up on the edge of the bed, one orange and one gray, both tabbies, and asked, ‘Is that your cat or a family cat?’
- Tumble, an adorable gray tabby, was a member of our family from the time she was born.
- ‘It takes about two years for the coat to come in completely on colors other than tabbies,’ says one cat association.
- Debbie has fallen in love with a beautiful dark coloured tabby who, like most of the others, still has two weeks to go before he's ready for adoption.
- With great reluctance, she handed over the little grey tabby.
- In the next suite was a man, a woman and a dark grey tabby cat.
- Skittles, an orange tabby, was left behind during a summer stay in southern Wisconsin.
- The cat was an orange tabby with amber eyes that were narrowed with anger.
- Princess, a gray tabby, ran away, the bell on her pink collar that bore her name jingling.
- There are tabbies and toms in white, black, grey and ginger.
- The cat could be a tabby, a tortoiseshell, maybe even a Siamese.
- Mavis and Stella aren't happy about my false start of five minutes ago, and the tabbies are sitting side by side, noses in the air, on the middle of the kitchen counter.
- On my way home I was accosted by a mewing tabby and white shorthair cat that proceeded to follow me home.
- The cat's eyes were an extraordinarily bright shade of blue, and its coat was marked with white stripes similar to that of a tabby, but tipped with the black face, tail, and feet points of a Siamese.
- A grey tabby cat with white legs and wearing a red collar with a bell was found in the Hawthorn area of the town over the New Year period.
- While she stroked the brown tabby, she reflected on the day ahead.
- Another was a brown tabby, she was a very sweet kitten.
- We're very very proud, and he beat a very merited beautiful silver tabby.
- They were all similar to Juniper, but each came in a different breed or color; some were ginger, some were tabbies, Manx even… Every kind of cat.
Synonyms
cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten
2mass noun A fabric with a watered pattern, typically silk.
波纹织物（尤指波纹绸）
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of these samples are dated to the Han times; they range from lightweight tabby and gauze, some plain and some printed, to medium-textured fabrics such as damask.
3mass noun A plain weave.
平纹
4mass noun A type of concrete made of lime, shells, gravel, and stones, which dries very hard.
（石灰碎石组成的）土质混凝土
5A small moth with dark wavy markings on the forewings.
斑蛾
Genus Aglossa (family Pyralidae), often found in barns and warehouses, and genus Epizeuxis (family Noctuidae)

adjective ˈtabiˈtæbi

(of a cat) grey or brownish in colour and streaked with dark stripes.
斑猫
a young tabby tomcat
Example sentencesExamples
- He was a big white cat with tabby patches and he was like a member of the family.
- His orange tabby fur was normal among street toms.
- A small, tabby kitten walked out, sniffing the air.
- He is an exceptionally cute, friendly and talkative young cat, with classic blotchy tabby coat.
- Just outside their door, three Cats probed their defenses, a young notch-eared orange-haired tom and two tabby females.
- Though the tigers involved are usually of the orange colour, white tigers have been mated with lions to produce white Ligers and golden tabby tigers have been mated with lions to produce golden Ligers.
- Waiting for her at the gate was the neighbour's tabby tomcat who bore the unoriginal name of Tiger.
- When I was young, my aunt took a kitten from that cat, a little tabby one, before she left - I hope she found somewhere more peaceful with it.
- He then looked over towards the tabby kitten and touched it.
- I glanced over to where he was looking and saw a creature like a tiger, but with tabby coloring instead of the traditional black and orange stripes.
- Their coloration is similar to that of a tabby domestic cat and makes them difficult to see in their forested habitats.
- Her grandma promptly picked up the water jug, and poured it through the screen, onto the little tabby kitten.
- Two little bunnies owe their lives to Tess, the tabby kitten.
- Then there was the surgery cat, a tough little tabby, much like Harry Cat except his tabby stripes were broken into small pieces by the intrusion of some foreign gene in his heritage.
- Seeing no one save a small tabby kitten lying curled upon a red plush sofa, I took the chance to look around.
- She went back to help the cat and recognised a tiny bit of tabby fur that hadn't been burnt off, and realised the cat was her own.
- She named another Ru, for no reason, she had a tabby coat with a tan stripe across her nose.
- The two smallest kittens looked alike they had the same tabby fur, the smallest of the cats also matched as they had the same caramel coat and the biggest cats had the same fluffy white fur.
- The tabby kitten made a soft mewing sound and rolled out of the playful fight.
Synonyms
speckled, blotched, blotchy, spotted, spotty, dotted, streaked, streaky, mottled, marbled, flecked, freckled, stippled, piebald, skewbald, pied, brindled, brindle, marled

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting a kind of silk taffeta, originally striped, later with a watered finish: see sense 2 of the noun): from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured.

A striped tabby cat is said to get its name from a kind of silk which was originally striped, although later tabby was used for silk with a watered finish. The word goes back to the name of the quarter of Baghdad where the material was manufactured, al-Attābiyya.

Rhymes

abbey, cabby, crabby, flabby, gabby, grabby, Rabbie, scabby, shabby, yabby

Definition of tabby in US English:

tabby

nounˈtabēˈtæbi

1A cat whose fur is mottled or streaked with dark stripes.
斑猫
Example sentencesExamples
- They were all similar to Juniper, but each came in a different breed or color; some were ginger, some were tabbies, Manx even… Every kind of cat.
- A grey tabby cat with white legs and wearing a red collar with a bell was found in the Hawthorn area of the town over the New Year period.
- While she stroked the brown tabby, she reflected on the day ahead.
- Another was a brown tabby, she was a very sweet kitten.
- There are tabbies and toms in white, black, grey and ginger.
- We're very very proud, and he beat a very merited beautiful silver tabby.
- In the next suite was a man, a woman and a dark grey tabby cat.
- The cat was an orange tabby with amber eyes that were narrowed with anger.
- I noticed two cats curled up on the edge of the bed, one orange and one gray, both tabbies, and asked, ‘Is that your cat or a family cat?’
- Debbie has fallen in love with a beautiful dark coloured tabby who, like most of the others, still has two weeks to go before he's ready for adoption.
- The cat could be a tabby, a tortoiseshell, maybe even a Siamese.
- Mavis and Stella aren't happy about my false start of five minutes ago, and the tabbies are sitting side by side, noses in the air, on the middle of the kitchen counter.
- With great reluctance, she handed over the little grey tabby.
- Tumble, an adorable gray tabby, was a member of our family from the time she was born.
- ‘It takes about two years for the coat to come in completely on colors other than tabbies,’ says one cat association.
- Skittles, an orange tabby, was left behind during a summer stay in southern Wisconsin.
- The cat's eyes were an extraordinarily bright shade of blue, and its coat was marked with white stripes similar to that of a tabby, but tipped with the black face, tail, and feet points of a Siamese.
- On my way home I was accosted by a mewing tabby and white shorthair cat that proceeded to follow me home.
- Princess, a gray tabby, ran away, the bell on her pink collar that bore her name jingling.
Synonyms
cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten
1. 1.1US informal Any domestic cat.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Unfortunately, the odds are less than favourable for this overgrown tabby.
  Even the most beloved mutt or tabby is deemed virtually worthless: rescued from an animal shelter for a nominal fee, they can be ‘replaced’ at the same expense.
  Cats and dogs run the risk of falling victim to accidents just as much as humans do, and when an operation is required, your adorable little tabby might need an urgent blood transfusion.
2A fabric with a watered pattern, typically silk.
波纹织物（尤指波纹绸）
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of these samples are dated to the Han times; they range from lightweight tabby and gauze, some plain and some printed, to medium-textured fabrics such as damask.
3A plain weave.
平纹
4A type of concrete made of lime, shells, gravel, and stones, which dries very hard.
（石灰碎石组成的）土质混凝土

adjectiveˈtabēˈtæbi

(of a cat) gray or brownish in color and streaked with dark stripes.
斑猫
a young tabby tomcat
Example sentencesExamples
- She went back to help the cat and recognised a tiny bit of tabby fur that hadn't been burnt off, and realised the cat was her own.
- When I was young, my aunt took a kitten from that cat, a little tabby one, before she left - I hope she found somewhere more peaceful with it.
- Just outside their door, three Cats probed their defenses, a young notch-eared orange-haired tom and two tabby females.
- Seeing no one save a small tabby kitten lying curled upon a red plush sofa, I took the chance to look around.
- Though the tigers involved are usually of the orange colour, white tigers have been mated with lions to produce white Ligers and golden tabby tigers have been mated with lions to produce golden Ligers.
- A small, tabby kitten walked out, sniffing the air.
- I glanced over to where he was looking and saw a creature like a tiger, but with tabby coloring instead of the traditional black and orange stripes.
- He then looked over towards the tabby kitten and touched it.
- His orange tabby fur was normal among street toms.
- The two smallest kittens looked alike they had the same tabby fur, the smallest of the cats also matched as they had the same caramel coat and the biggest cats had the same fluffy white fur.
- He was a big white cat with tabby patches and he was like a member of the family.
- She named another Ru, for no reason, she had a tabby coat with a tan stripe across her nose.
- He is an exceptionally cute, friendly and talkative young cat, with classic blotchy tabby coat.
- Her grandma promptly picked up the water jug, and poured it through the screen, onto the little tabby kitten.
- The tabby kitten made a soft mewing sound and rolled out of the playful fight.
- Their coloration is similar to that of a tabby domestic cat and makes them difficult to see in their forested habitats.
- Two little bunnies owe their lives to Tess, the tabby kitten.
- Then there was the surgery cat, a tough little tabby, much like Harry Cat except his tabby stripes were broken into small pieces by the intrusion of some foreign gene in his heritage.
- Waiting for her at the gate was the neighbour's tabby tomcat who bore the unoriginal name of Tiger.
Synonyms
speckled, blotched, blotchy, spotted, spotty, dotted, streaked, streaky, mottled, marbled, flecked, freckled, stippled, piebald, skewbald, pied, brindled, brindle, marled

Origin

Late 16th century (denoting a kind of silk taffeta, originally striped, later with a watered finish: see tabby (sense 2 of the noun)): from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured.

词汇	tabby
释义	Definition of tabby in English: tabby nounPlural tabbies ˈtabiˈtæbi 1A grey or brownish cat mottled or streaked with dark stripes. 斑猫 Example sentencesExamples I noticed two cats curled up on the edge of the bed, one orange and one gray, both tabbies, and asked, ‘Is that your cat or a family cat?’ Tumble, an adorable gray tabby, was a member of our family from the time she was born. ‘It takes about two years for the coat to come in completely on colors other than tabbies,’ says one cat association. Debbie has fallen in love with a beautiful dark coloured tabby who, like most of the others, still has two weeks to go before he's ready for adoption. With great reluctance, she handed over the little grey tabby. In the next suite was a man, a woman and a dark grey tabby cat. Skittles, an orange tabby, was left behind during a summer stay in southern Wisconsin. The cat was an orange tabby with amber eyes that were narrowed with anger. Princess, a gray tabby, ran away, the bell on her pink collar that bore her name jingling. There are tabbies and toms in white, black, grey and ginger. The cat could be a tabby, a tortoiseshell, maybe even a Siamese. Mavis and Stella aren't happy about my false start of five minutes ago, and the tabbies are sitting side by side, noses in the air, on the middle of the kitchen counter. On my way home I was accosted by a mewing tabby and white shorthair cat that proceeded to follow me home. The cat's eyes were an extraordinarily bright shade of blue, and its coat was marked with white stripes similar to that of a tabby, but tipped with the black face, tail, and feet points of a Siamese. A grey tabby cat with white legs and wearing a red collar with a bell was found in the Hawthorn area of the town over the New Year period. While she stroked the brown tabby, she reflected on the day ahead. Another was a brown tabby, she was a very sweet kitten. We're very very proud, and he beat a very merited beautiful silver tabby. They were all similar to Juniper, but each came in a different breed or color; some were ginger, some were tabbies, Manx even… Every kind of cat. Synonyms cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten 2mass noun A fabric with a watered pattern, typically silk. 波纹织物（尤指波纹绸） Example sentencesExamples Some of these samples are dated to the Han times; they range from lightweight tabby and gauze, some plain and some printed, to medium-textured fabrics such as damask. 3mass noun A plain weave. 平纹 4mass noun A type of concrete made of lime, shells, gravel, and stones, which dries very hard. （石灰碎石组成的）土质混凝土 5A small moth with dark wavy markings on the forewings. 斑蛾 Genus Aglossa (family Pyralidae), often found in barns and warehouses, and genus Epizeuxis (family Noctuidae) adjective ˈtabiˈtæbi (of a cat) grey or brownish in colour and streaked with dark stripes. 斑猫 a young tabby tomcat Example sentencesExamples He was a big white cat with tabby patches and he was like a member of the family. His orange tabby fur was normal among street toms. A small, tabby kitten walked out, sniffing the air. He is an exceptionally cute, friendly and talkative young cat, with classic blotchy tabby coat. Just outside their door, three Cats probed their defenses, a young notch-eared orange-haired tom and two tabby females. Though the tigers involved are usually of the orange colour, white tigers have been mated with lions to produce white Ligers and golden tabby tigers have been mated with lions to produce golden Ligers. Waiting for her at the gate was the neighbour's tabby tomcat who bore the unoriginal name of Tiger. When I was young, my aunt took a kitten from that cat, a little tabby one, before she left - I hope she found somewhere more peaceful with it. He then looked over towards the tabby kitten and touched it. I glanced over to where he was looking and saw a creature like a tiger, but with tabby coloring instead of the traditional black and orange stripes. Their coloration is similar to that of a tabby domestic cat and makes them difficult to see in their forested habitats. Her grandma promptly picked up the water jug, and poured it through the screen, onto the little tabby kitten. Two little bunnies owe their lives to Tess, the tabby kitten. Then there was the surgery cat, a tough little tabby, much like Harry Cat except his tabby stripes were broken into small pieces by the intrusion of some foreign gene in his heritage. Seeing no one save a small tabby kitten lying curled upon a red plush sofa, I took the chance to look around. She went back to help the cat and recognised a tiny bit of tabby fur that hadn't been burnt off, and realised the cat was her own. She named another Ru, for no reason, she had a tabby coat with a tan stripe across her nose. The two smallest kittens looked alike they had the same tabby fur, the smallest of the cats also matched as they had the same caramel coat and the biggest cats had the same fluffy white fur. The tabby kitten made a soft mewing sound and rolled out of the playful fight. Synonyms speckled, blotched, blotchy, spotted, spotty, dotted, streaked, streaky, mottled, marbled, flecked, freckled, stippled, piebald, skewbald, pied, brindled, brindle, marled Origin Late 16th century (denoting a kind of silk taffeta, originally striped, later with a watered finish: see sense 2 of the noun): from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured. A striped tabby cat is said to get its name from a kind of silk which was originally striped, although later tabby was used for silk with a watered finish. The word goes back to the name of the quarter of Baghdad where the material was manufactured, al-Attābiyya. Rhymes abbey, cabby, crabby, flabby, gabby, grabby, Rabbie, scabby, shabby, yabby Definition of tabby in US English: tabby nounˈtabēˈtæbi 1A cat whose fur is mottled or streaked with dark stripes. 斑猫 Example sentencesExamples They were all similar to Juniper, but each came in a different breed or color; some were ginger, some were tabbies, Manx even… Every kind of cat. A grey tabby cat with white legs and wearing a red collar with a bell was found in the Hawthorn area of the town over the New Year period. While she stroked the brown tabby, she reflected on the day ahead. Another was a brown tabby, she was a very sweet kitten. There are tabbies and toms in white, black, grey and ginger. We're very very proud, and he beat a very merited beautiful silver tabby. In the next suite was a man, a woman and a dark grey tabby cat. The cat was an orange tabby with amber eyes that were narrowed with anger. I noticed two cats curled up on the edge of the bed, one orange and one gray, both tabbies, and asked, ‘Is that your cat or a family cat?’ Debbie has fallen in love with a beautiful dark coloured tabby who, like most of the others, still has two weeks to go before he's ready for adoption. The cat could be a tabby, a tortoiseshell, maybe even a Siamese. Mavis and Stella aren't happy about my false start of five minutes ago, and the tabbies are sitting side by side, noses in the air, on the middle of the kitchen counter. With great reluctance, she handed over the little grey tabby. Tumble, an adorable gray tabby, was a member of our family from the time she was born. ‘It takes about two years for the coat to come in completely on colors other than tabbies,’ says one cat association. Skittles, an orange tabby, was left behind during a summer stay in southern Wisconsin. The cat's eyes were an extraordinarily bright shade of blue, and its coat was marked with white stripes similar to that of a tabby, but tipped with the black face, tail, and feet points of a Siamese. On my way home I was accosted by a mewing tabby and white shorthair cat that proceeded to follow me home. Princess, a gray tabby, ran away, the bell on her pink collar that bore her name jingling. Synonyms cat, domestic cat, wild cat, alley cat, kitten 1.1US informal Any domestic cat. Example sentencesExamples Unfortunately, the odds are less than favourable for this overgrown tabby. Even the most beloved mutt or tabby is deemed virtually worthless: rescued from an animal shelter for a nominal fee, they can be ‘replaced’ at the same expense. Cats and dogs run the risk of falling victim to accidents just as much as humans do, and when an operation is required, your adorable little tabby might need an urgent blood transfusion. 2A fabric with a watered pattern, typically silk. 波纹织物（尤指波纹绸） Example sentencesExamples Some of these samples are dated to the Han times; they range from lightweight tabby and gauze, some plain and some printed, to medium-textured fabrics such as damask. 3A plain weave. 平纹 4A type of concrete made of lime, shells, gravel, and stones, which dries very hard. （石灰碎石组成的）土质混凝土 adjectiveˈtabēˈtæbi (of a cat) gray or brownish in color and streaked with dark stripes. 斑猫 a young tabby tomcat Example sentencesExamples She went back to help the cat and recognised a tiny bit of tabby fur that hadn't been burnt off, and realised the cat was her own. When I was young, my aunt took a kitten from that cat, a little tabby one, before she left - I hope she found somewhere more peaceful with it. Just outside their door, three Cats probed their defenses, a young notch-eared orange-haired tom and two tabby females. Seeing no one save a small tabby kitten lying curled upon a red plush sofa, I took the chance to look around. Though the tigers involved are usually of the orange colour, white tigers have been mated with lions to produce white Ligers and golden tabby tigers have been mated with lions to produce golden Ligers. A small, tabby kitten walked out, sniffing the air. I glanced over to where he was looking and saw a creature like a tiger, but with tabby coloring instead of the traditional black and orange stripes. He then looked over towards the tabby kitten and touched it. His orange tabby fur was normal among street toms. The two smallest kittens looked alike they had the same tabby fur, the smallest of the cats also matched as they had the same caramel coat and the biggest cats had the same fluffy white fur. He was a big white cat with tabby patches and he was like a member of the family. She named another Ru, for no reason, she had a tabby coat with a tan stripe across her nose. He is an exceptionally cute, friendly and talkative young cat, with classic blotchy tabby coat. Her grandma promptly picked up the water jug, and poured it through the screen, onto the little tabby kitten. The tabby kitten made a soft mewing sound and rolled out of the playful fight. Their coloration is similar to that of a tabby domestic cat and makes them difficult to see in their forested habitats. Two little bunnies owe their lives to Tess, the tabby kitten. Then there was the surgery cat, a tough little tabby, much like Harry Cat except his tabby stripes were broken into small pieces by the intrusion of some foreign gene in his heritage. Waiting for her at the gate was the neighbour's tabby tomcat who bore the unoriginal name of Tiger. Synonyms speckled, blotched, blotchy, spotted, spotty, dotted, streaked, streaky, mottled, marbled, flecked, freckled, stippled, piebald, skewbald, pied, brindled, brindle, marled Origin Late 16th century (denoting a kind of silk taffeta, originally striped, later with a watered finish: see tabby (sense 2 of the noun)): from French tabis, based on Arabic al-‘Attābiyya, the name of the quarter of Baghdad where tabby was manufactured.
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