tabby

The word “tabby” has 2 syllables: tab-by

It's pronounced as /ˈtæbi/


What is synonym and antonym for tabby?

In the thesaurus, “tabby” has 46 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for tabby along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for tabby

  • alley cat
  • babbler
  • banded
  • barred
  • blab
  • blabbermouth
  • busybody
  • cat
  • chatterbox
  • chatterer
  • circulator
  • corded
  • feline
  • flibbertigibbet
  • gib
  • gossiper
  • gossipmonger
  • house cat
  • informer
  • kit
  • kitten
  • kitty
  • meddler
  • moggie
  • moggy
  • mouser
  • newsmonger
  • parrot
  • prattler
  • puss
  • pussy
  • pussycat
  • rumormonger
  • scandalizer
  • scandalmonger
  • snoop
  • streaked
  • striped
  • talebearer
  • taleteller
  • tattle
  • tattler
  • tattletale
  • telltale
  • tomcat
  • whisperer

Meanings of tabby

  • noun
    1. A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
    2. 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.
    3. A brindled cat.
    4. An old maid or gossip.
  • verb
    1. To give a wavy or watered appearance to (a textile).
  • adjective
    1. Having a wavy or watered appearance.
    2. Brindled; diversified in color.

Example Sentences

  • The playful tabby chased after a rolling ball of yarn.
  • In the sunlight, the fur of the sleeping tabby looked warm and inviting.
  • Our family adopted a sweet tabby from the local animal shelter.
  • The old bookstore had a resident cat, a wise and dignified tabby.
  • As I walked through the park, a curious tabby approached, hoping for attention.

On this page you'll find 46 synonyms or another words to tabby, such as: alley cat, babbler, banded, barred, blab, blabbermouth, busybody.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

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  • Benedict Arnold
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  • accuser
  • adviser
  • affront
  • agent
  • agent provocateur
  • aggravate
  • agitate
  • allurement
  • analyst
  • anger
  • announcer
  • annoy
  • antagonize
  • attraction
  • backstabber
  • badger
  • bait
  • ballyrag
  • beard
  • betrayer
  • bigmouth
  • bird dog
  • blab
  • blabber
  • blabbermouth
  • blind
  • bloodhound
  • booster
  • bother
  • bug
  • bull
  • bullyrag
  • busybody
  • camouflage
  • canary
  • catch
  • chafe
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • collaborator
  • come-on
  • constable
  • cop
  • crier
  • deceiver
  • deception
  • decoy
  • deep throat
  • devil
  • dick
  • discomfort
  • discompose
  • disquiet
  • distress
  • double-crosser
  • drawing card
  • eat
  • eavesdropper
  • enflame
  • enrage
  • ensnarement
  • enticement
  • exasperate
  • exercise
  • eye
  • facade
  • fake
  • fat mouth
  • fed
  • finger
  • fink
  • flatfoot
  • fork tongue
  • fret
  • front
  • frost
  • gall
  • gasser
  • get
  • get to
  • gossip
  • gossiper
  • grate
  • gripe
  • gumshoe
  • hagride
  • harass
  • harry
  • hassle
  • heckle
  • herald
  • imitation
  • incense
  • inducement
  • inflame
  • informant
  • informer
  • infuriate
  • insult
  • interviewer
  • inveiglement
  • irk
  • irritate
  • itch
  • journalist
  • leaker
  • lure
  • madden
  • messenger
  • miff
  • nag
  • narc
  • nettle
  • newsman
  • notifier
  • offend
  • outrage
  • peacher
  • peeper
  • peeve
  • persecute
  • perturb
  • pester
  • pique
  • plague
  • plainclothes officer
  • plant
  • police informer
  • police officer
  • polly
  • preacher
  • pretense
  • private eye
  • private investigator
  • propagandist
  • prosecutor
  • provoke
  • put out
  • quidnunc
  • rankle
  • rasp
  • rat
  • rat fink
  • ratfink
  • reporter
  • rile
  • roil
  • roper
  • rouse
  • rub the wrong way
  • ruffle
  • rumormonger
  • scab
  • scandalmonger
  • scout
  • seducement
  • sergeant
  • shadow
  • shamus
  • shill
  • shoofly
  • singer
  • sitting duck
  • sleazemonger
  • sleuth
  • slewfoot
  • snake
  • snare
  • sneak
  • snitch
  • snitcher
  • snoop
  • snooper
  • songbird
  • source
  • spite
  • spy
  • squeaker
  • squealer
  • stool pigeon
  • stoolie
  • tabby
  • tail
  • talebearer
  • taleteller
  • tattler
  • tattletale
  • tease
  • telltale
  • temptation
  • tipster
  • traitor
  • trick
  • trickery
  • troublemaker
  • turncoat
  • undo
  • unhinge
  • unsettle
  • upset
  • vex
  • wear on
  • weasel
  • whistle-blower
  • whistleblower
  • whistler
  • windbag
  • worry

canary

  • accuser
  • adviser
  • agent provocateur
  • announcer
  • backstabber
  • belt out
  • betrayer
  • bigmouth
  • blab
  • blabber
  • blabberer
  • blabbermouth
  • blonde
  • burst into song
  • busybody
  • buzz
  • cantillate
  • carol
  • chant
  • chirp
  • choir
  • collaborator
  • communicate
  • convey
  • crier
  • croon
  • deceiver
  • decoy
  • deep throat
  • descant
  • double-crosser
  • duet
  • ecru
  • emit
  • enunciate
  • express
  • fat mouth
  • finger
  • fink
  • fork tongue
  • gasser
  • give out
  • gossip
  • gossiper
  • groan
  • harmonize
  • herald
  • hum
  • hymn
  • impart
  • informant
  • informer
  • interviewer
  • intone
  • journalist
  • lark
  • leaker
  • lemon
  • let out
  • lift up a voice
  • light brown
  • line out
  • lullaby
  • make melody
  • messenger
  • moan
  • mouth
  • narc
  • nark
  • newsman
  • notifier
  • ochre
  • oscine
  • peacher
  • pigeon
  • pipe
  • pipit
  • plant
  • police informer
  • polly
  • preacher
  • pronounce
  • propagandist
  • purr
  • quidnunc
  • rat
  • rat fink
  • ratfink
  • reporter
  • resound
  • roar
  • rumormonger
  • say
  • scab
  • scandalmonger
  • serenade
  • serin
  • shill
  • shout
  • sing
  • singer
  • singsong
  • sleazemonger
  • snake
  • sneak
  • snitch
  • snitcher
  • snoop
  • snooper
  • solo
  • songbird
  • sound
  • source
  • speak
  • spy
  • squeaker
  • squealer
  • stool pigeon
  • stoolie
  • straw
  • tabby
  • talebearer
  • taleteller
  • talk
  • tan
  • tattler
  • tattletale
  • tawny
  • telltale
  • third ear
  • tipster
  • traitor
  • trill
  • troll
  • troublemaker
  • tune
  • turncoat
  • utter
  • vent
  • verbalize
  • vireo
  • vocalize
  • voice
  • wait
  • warble
  • weasel
  • whine
  • whistle
  • whistle-blower
  • whistleblower
  • whistler
  • windbag
  • wren
  • yellow-brown
  • yellowish
  • yodel

gasser

  • Daedalean
  • Gordian
  • abstruse
  • arduous
  • bigmouth
  • binary star
  • blabber
  • blabbermouth
  • brown dwarf
  • busybody
  • byzantine
  • can of worms
  • canary
  • cluster
  • constellation
  • convoluted
  • difficult
  • dwarf
  • elaborate
  • entangled
  • fancy
  • fat mouth
  • fink
  • fixed star
  • galaxy
  • giant star
  • gossip
  • hard
  • high-tech
  • informer
  • interlaced
  • intricate
  • involved
  • knotty
  • labyrinthine
  • loadstar
  • lodestar
  • luminary
  • mega factor
  • mixed
  • nark
  • neutron star
  • nova
  • peacher
  • perplexing
  • polly
  • problematic
  • pulsar
  • puzzling
  • quasar
  • quidnunc
  • rat
  • ratfink
  • recondite
  • red dwarf
  • red giant
  • red star
  • rumormonger
  • scandalmonger
  • sleazemonger
  • snitch
  • snitcher
  • sophisticated
  • sphere
  • squeaker
  • squealer
  • stool pigeon
  • stoolie
  • subdwarf
  • sun
  • supercluster
  • supergiant
  • supernova
  • tabby
  • talebearer
  • taleteller
  • tattler
  • telltale
  • tipster
  • troublemaker
  • troublesome
  • variable
  • variable star
  • various
  • wheels within wheels
  • whistleblower
  • whistler
  • white dwarf
  • windbag

maculate

  • abuse
  • adulterate
  • adulterated
  • alloyed
  • bedraggle
  • befoul
  • befouled
  • begrime
  • begrimed
  • bemired
  • besmirch
  • besmirched
  • bespatter
  • bespeckle
  • besprinkle
  • blended
  • blot
  • blotch
  • blotchy
  • cheapened
  • checkered
  • coalesced
  • combined
  • commingled
  • compounded
  • contaminate
  • contaminated
  • corrupted
  • crumb
  • dapple
  • dappled
  • debase
  • debased
  • defile
  • defiled
  • deflower
  • degrade
  • desecrate
  • dilute
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • dirty
  • discolor
  • disgrace
  • dishonor
  • doctored
  • dot
  • dust
  • fleck
  • flecked
  • foul
  • fouled
  • freckled
  • grime
  • hurt
  • impure
  • incorporated
  • intermingled
  • intermixed
  • make foul
  • marble
  • marbled
  • merged
  • mess
  • mess up
  • mingled
  • mixed
  • molest
  • motley
  • mottle
  • muck
  • muck up
  • muddy
  • muss
  • muss up
  • pepper
  • piebald
  • pied
  • pimple
  • pollute
  • polluted
  • profane
  • rape
  • ravish
  • scuzz up
  • seduce
  • shame
  • skewbald
  • smear
  • smudge
  • soil
  • soiled
  • spatter
  • speck
  • speckle
  • splash
  • splotch
  • spoil
  • spoiled
  • spot
  • spotted
  • stain
  • stipple
  • streak
  • streaked
  • stripe
  • stud
  • sullied
  • sully
  • tabby
  • taint
  • tainted
  • tar
  • tarnish
  • thinned
  • trash
  • unclarified
  • unfiltered
  • unrefined
  • variegate
  • variegated
  • vitiate
  • weakened

talebearer

  • babbler
  • betrayer
  • blab
  • blabber
  • blabbermouth
  • busybody
  • canary
  • chatterbox
  • chatterer
  • circulator
  • collaborator
  • deep throat
  • fink
  • flibbertigibbet
  • gossip
  • gossiper
  • gossipmonger
  • informant
  • informer
  • leaker
  • libeler
  • meddler
  • nark
  • newsmonger
  • notifier
  • parrot
  • prattler
  • quidnunc
  • rat
  • rat fink
  • rumormonger
  • scandalizer
  • scandalmonger
  • snitch
  • snitcher
  • snoop
  • snooper
  • spy
  • squealer
  • stool pigeon
  • stoolie
  • tabby
  • tale-teller
  • taleteller
  • tattle
  • tattler
  • tattletale
  • telltale
  • whisperer
  • whistle-blower
  • yenta

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