Cabbage definition
An example of cabbage is the main ingredient in coleslaw.
After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
To make lettuce cabbage.
Other Word Forms
Noun
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”)
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