tortie
/ˈtɔːtiː
/noun informal
A tortoiseshell cat: I currently have two torties and a calico as foster cats...
- We just thought it was because she's a tortie and therefore special.
- I have a tortie named Pepper.
- My vet takes no guff from snotty torties.
Origin
1940s: diminutive of tortoiseshell.
- settleable
- settlement
- Settlement, Act of
- settlement house
- settlement lease
- settlement scheme
- settle one's affairs (or estate)
- settle (or pay) a (or the) score
- settle (or square) accounts with
- settler
- settler's clock
- settle someone's hash
- settle the succession
- settling time
- settlor
- set to
- set-top
- set-top box
- set to work (or set someone to work)
- set-up
- set up home
- set up house
- set up shop
- Setúbal
- Seurat, Georges Pierre