A cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black.

synonym: tabby cat.

Roget 588: conversation, interlocution; collocution^†, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue.    causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk^†, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement^†; tripotage^†, cackle, prittle-prattle^†, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village.    conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It]; congress etc. (council) 696; powwow [U.S.].    hall of audience, durbar^†.    palaver, debate, logomachy^†, war of words.    gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer etc. (loquacity) 584; interlocutor etc. (spokesman) 582; conversationist^†, dialogist^†.    the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.].    ... show more

Polish: burasek

Female cat.

synonym: queen.

Polish: kotka, kocica

Having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats.

synonyms: brinded, brindle, brindled.

Roget 440: variegated etc. v.; many-colored, many-hued; divers-colored, party-colored; dichromatic, polychromatic; bicolor^†, tricolor, versicolor^†; of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors; kaleidoscopic.    iridescent; opaline^†, opalescent; prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant^†; irisated^†, pavonine^†.    pied, piebald; motley; mottled, marbled; pepper and salt, paned, dappled, clouded, cymophanous^†.    mosaic, tesselated, plaid; tortoise shell etc. n.. spotted, spotty; punctated^†, powdered; speckled etc. v.; freckled, flea-bitten, studded; flecked, fleckered^†; striated, barred, veined; brinded^†, brindled; tabby; watered; grizzled; listed; embroidered etc. v.; daedal^†; naevose^†, stipiform^†; strigose^†, striolate^†.    (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT ... show more

Polish: moręgowaty