cabbage
cabbage¹
Definition
cab·bage (kab′ij)
noun
- 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
- an edible bud at the end of the branch on some palm trees
- Slang paper money
Etymology: ME & OFr caboche, earlier caboce < ?
cabbage²
Definition
cab·bage (kab′ij)
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.
cabbage
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- braise: In a main course of grilled partridge, the bird had been cooked sympathetically, but braised red cabbage lacked texture and bite.
- chop: Methodically chopping cabbage occupies a portion of these long evenings.
- boil: If the truth be told I would rather eat curry than boiled cabbage!
- slice: You can also add thinly sliced raw cabbage to salads.
- cultivate: There are early recipes for cabbage soup too, with Dorset the first county in England to cultivate cabbages.
Adjective modifier
- pickled: Then use the mixture to stuff the pickled cabbage leaves.
- shredded: Place half the shredded cabbage in the dish then top with a layer of pears.
- ornamental: People put ornamental cabbages in pots so I dont see why not.
- fried: She just fixed him one of his favorite foods, fried cabbage with green onions mixed in, using her special oil.
- rotten: Humans can smell hydrogen sulfide gas, the smell of rotten cabbage, in the parts per trillion range.
- Red: Red cabbage provides a splash of color, blends well with sweet and sour and is a tasty alternative in its own right.
Modifies a noun
- soup: Atkins diet, low carb diets, the cabbage soup diet - they are all here.
- stalk: It is made out of a cabbage stalk, with a brass tip on the end.
- patch: From cabbage patch to rugby ground In 1907 Billy Williams bought a market garden for the Rugby Football Union.
- leaf: They also measured damage to a Chinese cabbage leaf.
- rose: MOSS -- Hardy shrub roses closely allied to the cabbage roses.
- doll: My hands and feet were so swollen that I looked like one of my cabbage patch dolls.
Noun used with modifier
cabbage Quotes
My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage-stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness.
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