Dictionary Entry
tabby
tabby is a 5-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
- 2noun
A mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
- 3noun
A brindled cat; hence, popularly, any cat.
- 4noun
An old maid or gossip.
- 5adjective
Having a wavy or watered appearance; as, a tabby waistcoat.
- 6adjective
Brindled; diversified in color; as, a tabby cat.
- 7transitive verb
To water; to cause to look wavy, by the process of calendering; to calender; as, to tabby silk, mohair, ribbon, etc.
- 8noun
female cat
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- 9noun
a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black
- 10adjective
having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats
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