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Cabbage definition

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(informal) Sweetheart; dear. Used as a term of endearment.
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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.
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The terminal bud of several species of palm, eaten as a vegetable.
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(slang) Money, especially in the form of bills.
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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 b.c.
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(slang) Paper money.
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(brit., slang, former) To steal.
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(archaic) Cloth snippets appropriated by a tailor when cutting out clothes.
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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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An edible bud at the end of the branch on some palm trees.
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An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
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(uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

Cabbage is good for you.

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(countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.

After the car crash, he became a cabbage.

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Used as a term of endearment.
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(uncountable, slang) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
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(uncountable, slang) Money.
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(uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
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The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
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The cabbage palmetto.
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(intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.

To make lettuce cabbage.

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To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
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Any of several similar or related plants, such as Chinese cabbage.
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Noun

Singular:
cabbage
Plural:
cabbages

Origin of cabbage

  • Middle English caboche from Old North French head possibly from alteration of Latin caput capital1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 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”)

    From Wiktionary

Cabbage Sentence Examples

  • If the recent work on the cabbage disease may be accepted, the bacteria make their entry at the water pores at the margins of the leaf, and thence via the glandular cells to the tracheids.

  • Potatoes, cabbage and lettuce are much grown for the early Northern markets.

  • The second crop of cabbage was starting to develop, and the okra looked good.

  • They can be killed by spreading about cabbage leaves, &c., poisoned with Paris green.

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