Search for crossword answers and clues
Lap warmer
Answer for the clue "Lap warmer ", 5 letters:
tabby
Alternative clues for the word tabby
Word definitions for tabby in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a tabby cat (= which has dark and light lines on brown or grey fur ) ▪ They had a 12-year-old tabby cat. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden, old and nearly dead from ...
Usage examples of tabby.
Here Art is no benignant goddess, but a Circe who turns her wooers into mewing Toms and Tabbies who linger about the doorsteps of her abode, unmindful of the flying brickbats and boot-jacks of the critics.
Then Chaos, the long-haired tabby, jumped down and sauntered past Fiddlesticks into the house.
The sign featuring a painting of the famous slumbering orange tabby swayed and creaked in the evening breeze.
Those counter-changed tabbies in the air, The sun once set, all of one colour are: So, when death comes, fresh tinctures lose their place, And dismal darkness then doth smutch the face.
He had the window open and was lifting a small, bedraggled cat over the sill, a tabby cat, badly in need of a good grooming, with round eyes and an anxious look.
Tabby or Tappy, I noticed, was still waiting for her husband, who, if he existed at all, was probably on a business trip out of town.
He led the way into a large, grand room, its grandness made cosy by a tabby cat curled up on one of the enormous sofas, a tangle of knitting cast down untidily on a table and a pile of books and magazines on a sofa table.
Eulalie sat at the table in the bedroom and sipped her cassina tea, made from the leaves of the bushes that grew near the tabby house.
The tabby that had been run off by the Sydney Ducks found her again and was not at all put off by her fish perfume.
Admiral Antonov and the Tabby were right about Theban underestimation of dieir capabilities.
Next came the orange tabby, skipping eagerly forward on its hindlegs, rushing through the door.
They were as far removed from Leadfoot Sam as a tiger is from a tabby cat, and proportionately more dangerous.
Having cleaned her offspring, bitten through the umbilicals, and eaten the afterbirths, consumption of which stimulated her lactation, the brownish tabby now was in a third bout of labor.
It was fortunate that the Tabby was junior to Demosthenes Waldeck but senior to every other Allied officer present, for his five fleet carriers, eight battlecruisers, and five heavy cruisers were the largest Allied contingent yet to reach Sarasota.
None of the CVLs had any fighters, the battlecruisers' magazines were less than two-thirds filled, and two battleships still had repair techs aboard, but they all mounted third-generation ECM, and the Tabbies had it on-line in deception mode.