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i noun
1.
a cat with a striped or brindled coat.
2.
a domestic cat, especially a female one.
3.
a spinster.
4.
a spiteful female gossip or tattler.
5.
adjective
7.
striped or brindled.
8.
made of or resembling tabby.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
verb (used with object)
9.
to give a wavy or watered appearance to, as silk.
Origin:
1630–40; back formation from French tabis (taken as plural), Middle French (a)tabis silk cloth < Medieval Latin attābi < Arabic ʿattābī, derivative of (al-)ʿAttābīyah, quarter of Baghdad where the silk was first made, literally, the quarter of (Prince) ʿAttāb
1630–40; back formation from French tabis (taken as plural), Middle French (a)tabis silk cloth < Medieval Latin attābi < Arabic ʿattābī, derivative of (al-)ʿAttābīyah, quarter of Baghdad where the silk was first made, literally, the quarter of (Prince) ʿAttāb
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tabby1 (ˈtæbɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a fabric with a watered pattern, esp silk or taffeta | |
| [C17: from Old French tabis silk cloth, from Arabic al-`attabiya, literally: the quarter of (Prince) `Attab, the part of Baghdad where the fabric was first made] | |
| tabby2 (ˈtæbɪ) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (esp of cats) brindled with dark stripes or wavy markings on a lighter background |
| 2. | having a wavy or striped pattern, particularly in colours of grey and brown |
| —n , -bies | |
| 3. | a tabby cat |
| 4. | any female domestic cat |
| 5. | informal (Brit) a gossiping old woman |
| 6. | slang (Austral) any girl or woman |
| [C17: from Tabby, pet form of the girl's name Tabitha, probably influenced by | |
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Word Origin & History
tabby
1638, "striped silk taffeta," from Fr. tabis "a rich, watered silk (originally striped)," from M.Fr. 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 1695; shortened form tabby first attested 1774. Sense of "female cat" (1826) may be infl. 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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