tabbies

Meaning of tabbies

plural noun
  1. a grey or brownish cat mottled or streaked with dark stripes.
  2. a fabric with a watered pattern, typically silk.
  3. a plain weave.
  4. a type of concrete made of lime, shells, gravel, and stones, which dries very hard.
  5. a small moth with dark wavy markings on the forewings.

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.

Information about tabbies

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of tabbies is: tabby.
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Hyphenation of tabbies

tab-bies

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • tabbies is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Anagrams of tabbies

Babites, babiest

Words that rhyme with tabbies

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