Definition of Cabbage

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cabbage
n. type of leafy vegetable
v. pilfer, take someone else's things (Rare usage)

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Cabbage Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cabbage
(v. i.)
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
  
(v. i.)
To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
  
(n.)
The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
  
(n.)
The cabbage palmetto. See below.
  
(n.)
Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
  
(n.)
An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
  

WordNet 2.0
cabbage

Noun
1. any of various types of cabbage
(synonym) chou
(hypernym) cruciferous vegetable
(hyponym) kale, kail, cole
(part-holonym) cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea
2. informal terms for money
(synonym) boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
(hypernym) money
(derivation) pilfer, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
3. any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers
(synonym) cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea
(hypernym) crucifer, cruciferous plant
(hyponym) head cabbage, head cabbage plant, Brassica oleracea capitata
(member-holonym) Brassica, genus Brassica
(part-meronym) chou

Verb
1. make off with belongings of others
(synonym) pilfer, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
(hypernym) steal
(derivation) boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum

The Devil's Dictionary
CABBAGE
Cabbage, (n.)

A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

The cabbage is so called from Cabagius, a prince who on ascending the throne issued a decree appointing a High Council of Empire consisting of the members of his predecessor's Ministry and the cabbages in the royal garden. When any of his Majesty's measures of state policy miscarried conspicuously it was gravely announced that several members of the High Council had been beheaded, and his murmuring subjects were appeased.
  

Australian Slang
Cabbage Gardener
Victorian

Cabbage Patcher
Victorian

Cabbage Stater
Victorian

Cabbage tree hat
a rat, an informer

London Slang
cabbage
sometimes used as an offensive or playful term for someone a bit slow or foolish.

English Slang Dictionary v1.2
cabbage
1. money
2. a person in a catatonic state or seemingly brain dead
3. The female genitals

GLOSSARY OF ESOTERIC WORDS
cabbage
1: a leafy garden plant (Brassica oleracea capitata) of European origin with a short stem and a dense globular head of usu. green leaves that is used as a vegetable
2.. A person in a catatonic state or seemingly brain dead. 3. The female genitals

Vox Slang
Cabbage
Money.

Low Life Glossary
cabbage
noun. Money.

hEnglish - advanced version
cabbage

cabbage
\cab"bage\ (kăb"b&asl;j), n. [oe. cabage, fr. f. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. it. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, l. caput, or fr. it. cappa cape. see chief, cape.] (bot.)
1. an esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild brassica oleracea of europe. the common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. the cauliflower, brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
2. the terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. see cabbage tree, below.
3. the cabbage palmetto. see below.
cabbage
aphis (zo?l.), a green plant-louse (aphis brassic?) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage.
cabbage
beetle (zo?l.), a small, striped flea-beetle (phyllotreta vittata) which lives, in the larval state, on the roots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage and other cruciferous plants.
cabbage
butterfly (zo?l.), a white butterfly (pieris rap? of both europe and america, and the allied p. oleracea, a native american species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. see cabbage worm, below.
cabbage
fly (zo?l.), a small two-winged fly (anthomyia brassic?), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop.
cabbage
head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull.
cabbage
palmetto, a species of palm tree (sabal palmetto) found along the coast from north carolina to florida.
cabbage
rose (bot.), a species of rose (rosa centifolia) having large and heavy blossoms.
cabbage
tree,
cabbage
palm, a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the sabal palmetto of the united states, and the euterpe oleracea and oreodoxa oleracea of the west indies.
cabbage
worm (zo?l.), the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which attacks cabbages. the most common is usually the larva of a white butterfly. see cabbage butterfly, above. the cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night, are the larv? of several species of moths, of the genus agrotis. see cutworm.


  similar words(24) 




 wild cabbage 
 skunk cabbage 
 cultivated cabbage 
 red cabbage 
 palm cabbage 
 swamp cabbage 
 dog cabbage 
 thousand-headed cabbage 
 harlequin cabbage bug 
 turnip cabbage 
 cabbage tree 
 cabbage worm 
 cabbage palm 
 cabbage palmetto 
 cabbage rose 
 dog`s cabbage 
 cabbage beetle 
 water cabbage 
 cabbage head 
 cabbage aphis 
 sea cabbage 
 cabbage bark 
 cabbage fly 
 cabbage butterfly 

Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
cabbage
cabáiste m., cál

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Cawl
Cawl = n. cabbage; broth, gruel; pottage


Cabbage Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries

Dream Dictionary
Cabbage
It is bad to dream of cabbage. Disorders may run riot in all forms. To dream of seeing cabbage green, means unfaithfulness in love and infidelity in wedlock. To cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords of calamity around you by lavish expenditure.
  


Cabbage Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries

DietWatch™ Nutrition Facts
cabbage, raw
Amount per 100g:
Calories.......................25
Total Fat......................0 g
• Saturated Fat.................0 g
Cholesterol..................0 mg
Sodium........................18 mg
Total Carbohydrate......5 g
• Dietary Fiber...................2 g
Protein.........................1 g
 Vitamin A  133 IU   Vitamin C  32 mg
 Calcium    47 mg    Iron         1 mg


Cabbage Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Cabbage
Coronary artery bypass graft surgery is sometimes pronounced 'Cabbage(s)'.
A cabbage (Brassica oleracea Capitata Group) is a plant of the Family Brassicaceae (or Cruciferae). It is herbaceousbiennial, and a dicotyledonous flowering plant with leaves forming a characteristic compact cluster. Cabbages grown late in autumn and in the beginning of winter are denominated coleworts.

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