[
US
/ˈtæbi/
]
[ UK /tˈæbi/ ]
[ UK /tˈæbi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
NOUN
- a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black
- female cat
How To Use tabby In A Sentence
- On my way home I was accosted by a mewing tabby and white shorthair cat that proceeded to follow me home.
- 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.
- Her back was tabby: from above or the back, she was a pretty tabby kitten, in grey and cream. ON CATS
- Hush, my dear boy!" she said, in her soothing way, as if she were stroking me down the back like she stroked her tabby Tom -- one of the mousiest and most petted of cats. She and I, Volume 1
- Princess, a gray tabby, ran away, the bell on her pink collar that bore her name jingling.
- The mask, legs and tail should all show clear tabby markings which should be the same colour on all points.
- Secretly Henrietta longed for a cat, a sweet gray tabby with little paws and doleful eyes who she could share her life long secrets with.
- He is an exceptionally cute, friendly and talkative young cat, with classic blotchy tabby coat.
- The Tabby Cat character of our family is really weird.
- In the corner a tabby cat is curled round a nest of her kittens.