[f. TABBY sb. + -HOOD.] The condition of being an old maid: see TABBY sb. 3.

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1793.  J. Gifford, ed. Resid. France (1797), I. 366. I know if I venture to add a word in defence of Tabbyhood, I shall be engaged in a war with yourself and all our young acquaintance.

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1824.  Blackw. Mag., XV. 115. He … married a wife verging on her tabbyhood.

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