cabbage

cab·bage

A head of green cabbage.

noun

The definition of cabbage is a vegetable with large light green or purple leaves formed into a tight head and a short thick stem.

An example of cabbage is the main ingredient in coleslaw.

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cabbage

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

Origin of cabbage

Middle English and Old French caboche, earlier caboce from uncertain or unknown; perhaps

transitive verb

intransitive verb

-·baged, -·bag·ing

Brit., Slang to steal

Origin of cabbage

probably from French cabasser, to put into a basket, steal from cabas, basket from Vulgar Latin an unverified form capacium, reed basket

Archaic cloth snippets appropriated by a tailor when cutting out clothes

Origin of cabbage

prob. < the v.

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cabbage

noun

Any of several forms of a vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) of the mustard family, having a globose head consisting of a short stem and tightly overlapping green to purplish leaves.
Any of several similar or related plants, such as Chinese cabbage.
The terminal bud of several species of palm, eaten as a vegetable.
Slang Money, especially in the form of bills.
Informal Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.

Origin of cabbage

Middle English caboche from Old North French head possibly from alteration of Latin caput ; see capital ¹.

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cab′bag·y
adjective

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Noun

(countable and uncountable, plural cabbages)

An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
(uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
Cabbage is good for you.
(countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
Used as a term of endearment.
(uncountable, slang) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
(uncountable, slang) Money.
(uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
The cabbage palmetto.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)

(intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
to make lettuce cabbage
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.

Origin

From Anglo-Norman caboche, "head", from the Picard or Norman/Old Northern French dialect of Old French. This in turn is a variant of the Old French caboce, most likely a diminutive from Latin caput (“head”), but also possibly related to boce (“hump, bump”)

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