Cabbage Definition
kăbĭj
cabbaged, cabbages, cabbaging
noun
cabbages
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.
Webster's New World
Any of several similar or related plants, such as Chinese cabbage.
American Heritage
An edible bud at the end of the branch on some palm trees.
Webster's New World
Paper money.
Webster's New World
Cloth snippets appropriated by a tailor when cutting out clothes.
Webster's New World
verb
cabbaged, cabbages, cabbaging
To steal.
Webster's New World
(intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.
To make lettuce cabbage.
Wiktionary
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Cabbage
Noun
Singular:
cabbage
Plural:
cabbagesOrigin of Cabbage
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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
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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
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