cabbage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: food
lifestyle
vegetable
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French caboce
Anglo-Norman cabochebor.
Middle English caboche
English cabbage
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).
Inflected forms:
form: cabbages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cabbages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cabbaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cabbaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cabbaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In aphrodisiac preparation, wild cabbage was frequently an ingredient.
gloss: An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Cabbage is good for you.
gloss: A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
offensive
examples: After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
gloss: Used as a term of endearment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A human head.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: American made choppas / You beefin', we split ya cabbage
gloss: To form a head like that of the cabbage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to make lettuce cabbage
gloss: To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: How effective the project was is a moot point, because there were never any studies carried out to see whether children benefited from cabbaging in front of the TV rather than interacting with a teacher.
gloss: To be killed or murdered, such as by being shot in the head.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Synonyms: cabbage plant
cole
person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage
Related words: brassica
broccoflower
broccoli
broccolini
Brussels sprouts
cabbage tree
carbage
cauliflower
Chinese cabbage
Chinese broccoli
Chinese kale
collard greens
kale
kohlrabi
sauerkraut
red cabbage
Derived words: 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 Tree
Cabbage Tree Island
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
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