Cabbage
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈkabɪdʒ/
- US IPA: /ˈkæbɪdʒ/
- Homophone: CABG (one pronunciation)
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")
Noun
cabbage
(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.
- 2009, w:Tom Stoppard, w, If you deceive me, Yasha, I don't know if my nerves could stand it. YASHA (kissing her) My little cabbage! Of course, a girl must know her place.
- (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.
Synonyms
Full definition of cabbage
Verb
- (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.to make lettuce cabbage
- (transitive) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
- ArbuthnotYour tailor...cabbages whole yards of cloth.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 8, We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.