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cab·bage (kabij)

noun

  1. a common vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) of the crucifer family, with thick leaves formed into a round, compact head on a short, thick stalk: cultivated as early as 2000
  2. an edible bud at the end of the branch on some palm trees
  3. Slang paper money

Etymology: ME & OFr caboche, earlier caboce < ?

cabbage2 definition

cab·bage (kabij)

transitive verb, intransitive verb cabbaged -·baged, cabbaging -·bag·ing

Brit., Slang to steal

Etymology: prob. < Fr cabasser, to put into a basket, steal < cabas, basket < VL *capacium, reed basket

noun

Archaic cloth snippets appropriated by a tailor when cutting out clothes

Etymology: prob. < the v.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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