cabbage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæbɪd͡ʒ/
homophone: CABG (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -æbɪdʒ
Forms: form: cabbages
Etymology: From Middle English caboche, cabage (“cabbage”; “a certain fish”), a borrowing from Anglo-Norman caboche (“head”), a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain origin. Some authorities derive it from Latin caput (“head”), others from ca- (said to be an expressive prefix) + boce (“hump; bump”) (whence English boss).
Senses: examples: text: In aphrodisiac preparation, wild cabbage was frequently an ingredient.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 53:
glosses: An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
glosses: An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
examples: text: Cabbage is good for you.
topics: food
lifestyle
vegetable
glosses: The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
examples: text: After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
glosses: A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2009, Tom Stoppard, Helen Rappaport, The Cherry Orchard, translation of Вишнëвый сад ("Vishniovy sad") by Anton Chekhov, published 1904, page 31:
glosses: Used as a term of endearment.
glosses: Money.
glosses: Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
glosses: A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
glosses: A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
examples: text: American made choppas / You beefin', we split ya cabbage
ref: 2024, “Cult Status”, performed by JPEGMAFIA:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A human head.
Synonyms: sense: plant
word: cabbage plant
sense: plant
word: cole
sense: leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
word: cole
sense: leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
word: greens
topics: vegetable
food
lifestyle
word: person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage
Derived terms: bacon and cabbage
beach cabbage
cabbage aphid
cabbageball
cabbage-bark
cabbage butterfly
cabbage fly
cabbage gum
cabbagehead
cabbage head
cabbage-head
cabbageless
cabbage lettuce
cabbagelike
cabbage looper
cabbage moth
cabbage on a stick
cabbage palm
cabbage patch
cabbage roll
cabbage root fly
cabbage rose
cabbage salad
Cabbagetown
cabbage white
cabbagewood
cabbage worm
cabbagy
celery cabbage
cone cabbage
drumhead cabbage
green mustard cabbage
harlequin cabbage bug
hispi cabbage
how the cow ate the cabbage
I don't boil my cabbage twice
I don't chew my cabbage twice
imported cabbage worm
jazz cabbage
kaffir cabbage
Kerguelen cabbage
Liberty cabbage
liberty cabbage
Lundy cabbage
Milan cabbage
mountain cabbage
napa cabbage
Nile cabbage
not as green as one is cabbage-looking
palm cabbage
pointed cabbage
poor man's cabbage
Savoy cabbage
sea cabbage
sea otter's cabbage
skunk cabbage
St Patrick's cabbage
sugarloaf cabbage
sweetheart cabbage
thousand-headed cabbage
turnip-cabbage
wallflower cabbage
warrigal cabbage
water cabbage
white cabbage
wild cabbage