cabbage

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Etymology [edit]

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, possibly related to boce (“hump, bump”); cf. also Latin caput.

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Noun [edit]

A head of cabbage.

cabbage (countable and uncountable; plural cabbages)

  1. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
  2. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
    Cabbage is good for you.
  3. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
    After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
  4. Used as a term of endearment.
  5. (uncountable, slang) Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
  6. (uncountable, slang) Money
  7. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part you don't smoke but have to first extract into cannabutter and bake into spacecake to get high off.

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Translations [edit]

plant
leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage
money

Verb [edit]

cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)

  1. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
  2. (intransitive) To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.

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