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- adjective Resembling a
tiger , or an aspect of tigers
Etymologies
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Examples
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One ov mai kittehs is mosely white, wif a hart-shaped tigery mark at teh base ov hims tayle, and teh tigery goze all teh wai down hims tayle – maeks teh reer of teh kitteh look leik a elolfunt frunt, wif big eers anna trunk.
Select; Copy; Paste - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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November 4, 2008 at 12:58 pm prittee stripee kitteh – iz it a brown tigery kitteh? ai nebber seen a brown stripee kitteh b four.. beautimous adn sad
DEPRESSED ECONOMY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The least relaxation showed on the tigery bodies before her.
Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964
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He had been seated a little to one side, in a tigery kind of relaxed alert - ness-a stranger to me, dark and lean, with a blaster that had seen considerable service at his hip.
Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964
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Their brown tigery sides rose and fell peacefully in the sound slumber induced by the plentiful fare of Clairville, but no sleep came to their master.
Ringfield A Novel 1897
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"Sometimes when you make love to someone, it's tender and sometimes it's tigery."
Moving the Chains 2011
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