tabbyhood

Etymology

From tabby + -hood.

tabbyhood means the state of being an adult female cat (a tabby). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

noun

The state of being an adult female cat (a tabby).“You know, an old she-cat with a mess of kittens growing up to Tom and Tabbyhood will, at some certain period of their career, bring in a mouse and let her offspring play with the poor creature until they acquire the taste for mice.”
The state of being a spinster.“...to have gained both bachelor's prizes and have beat Professor Sandford, in competition for a Fellowship at Oriel; then to have become college tutor—embued the rising generation for six years with classical literature and philosophy —married a wife verging on her tabbyhood, and retired, without any reasonable prospect of a family, to read Jeremy Taylor in a snug living of ₤1000 a-year.”