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cabbage
1[ kab-ij ]
noun
- any of several cultivated varieties of a plant, Brassica oleracea capitata, of the mustard family, having a short stem and leaves formed into a compact, edible head.
- the head or leaves of this plant, eaten cooked or raw.
- Slang. money, especially paper money.
- Chiefly British Informal.
- a stupid, dull, or spiritless person.
- a mentally impaired person who is unable to live independently; vegetable.
cabbage
2[ kab-ij ]
noun
- Chiefly British.
- cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim.
- Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.
verb (used with or without object)
- to steal; pilfer:
He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.
cabbage
1/ ˈkæbɪdʒ /
noun
- Also calledcole any of various cultivated varieties of the plant Brassica oleracea capitata, typically having a short thick stalk and a large head of green or reddish edible leaves: family Brassicaceae (crucifers) See also brassica savoy Compare skunk cabbage Chinese cabbage
- wild cabbagea European plant, Brassica oleracea, with broad leaves and a long spike of yellow flowers: the plant from which the cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout have been bred
- the head of a cabbage
- the edible leaf bud of the cabbage palm
- informal.a dull or unimaginative person
- informal.a person who has no mental faculties and is dependent on others for his or her subsistence
cabbage
2/ ˈkæbɪdʒ /
noun
- snippets of cloth appropriated by a tailor from a customer's material
verb
- to steal; pilfer
Other Words From
- cabbage·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of cabbage1
Word History and Origins
Origin of cabbage1
Origin of cabbage2
Example Sentences
I most often use this technique for filets of fish, but it’s also great for developing crispy bits on a tray of roasted cabbage or any number of other vegetables.
Journalist Anne Applebaum, formerly of The Washington Post, drew this similarity with her piece in the Atlantic last week that compared the vaccine rollout and scramble for appointments in Maryland to a Soviet line for cabbage.
It extends the life of vegetables by days, or, in the case of cabbage, weeks.
You add chopped carrot and cabbage to the rice and stock, and then cook it all up in the rice maker’s porridge setting.
Potatoes, peas, cabbage and garlic all contribute to the hearty, healthy flavor, with some pasta just for the heck of it.
There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.
The cooking odors of cabbage and meatloaf and carrots drifted through doorways.
The stewed cabbage is insanely tender, vegetable-sweet, and more luxurious than cabbage has a right to be.
Is she back in the orphanage where it smells like ammonia and cooked cabbage?
But equally super are Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cabbage.
What of the infinite goodness of God in teaching the grub of the ichneumon-fly to eat up the cabbage caterpillar alive?
Beans and bacon, cabbage and brown hard dumplings, formed the bill of fare, which the men washed down with plenty of table beer.
They never do anything but eat cabbage and cause gardeners to use bad language.
And they both think of the cabbage soup steaming in the pot that hangs from the hook right under the great chimney.
When she reached the parlour where the cabbage soup was smoking on the table, Catherine shivered again.
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