cabbage
Syllables: cab·bage/ˈkæbɪd͡ʒ/
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British/ˈkabɪd͡ʒ/
cabbage noun: an edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
Noun (1)
cabbage (countable and uncountable, plural cabbages)
- An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- In aphrodisiac preparation, wild cabbage was frequently an ingredient.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 53
- Any of various cultivars of the species Brassica oleracea.
- The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
- Cabbage is good for you.
- A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
- After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
- Used as a term of endearment.
- 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.2009, Tom Stoppard, Helen Rappaport, The Cherry Orchard, translation of Вишнëвый сад ("Vishniovy sad") by Anton Chekhov, published 1904, page 31
- Money.
- Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
- A terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
- A cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
- A human head.
- American made choppas / You beefin', we split ya cabbage2024, “Cult Status”, performed by JPEGMAFIA
- Synonym of spinach (“thick rough”).
- That shot left me in the cabbage!
- Synonyms:
- spinach
Verb (1)
cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)
- To form a head like that of the cabbage.
- to make lettuce cabbage
- To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
- 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.2006, Steve Mckevitt, Why the World Is Full of Useless Things, page 38
- To be killed or murdered, such as by being shot in the head.
Noun (2)
cabbage (uncountable)
- Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.
Verb (2)
cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)
- To embezzle or purloin; to pilfer, to steal.
- [Y]our Butler purloins your Liquor, and your Brevver ſells your Hogvvaſh; […] your Taylor, inſtead of Shreds, cabages vvhole Yards of Cloth; […]1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. [The First Part.] Chapter X. Of John Bull’s Second Wife...
- We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
cabbage meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cabbage in Hindi
- specific cultivar
- पत्ता गोभी pattā gobhī, बंद गोभी band gobhī
- leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
- गोभी gobhī, पत्ता गोभी pattā gobhī, बंद गोभी band gobhī, कोबी kobī, करमकल्ला karamkallā
cabbage in Tamil
- முட்டைக்கோசு
cabbage in Marathi
- cabbage
- कोबी kobī
cabbage in Urdu
- specific cultivar
- بَنْد گوبھی band gobhī, پَتَّہ گوبھی patta gobhī
- leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable
- گوبھی gobhī, بَنْد گوبھی band gobhī, پَتَّہ گوبھی patta gobhī, کَرَم کَلّا karam kallā
More languagesFewer languages
- cabbage in Bengali
- কপি kopi
- cabbage in Telugu
- క్యాబేజీ, క్యాబేజింగ్
- cabbage in Malayalam
- കാബേജ് kābējŭ, മുട്ടക്കോസ് muṭṭakkōsŭ
- cabbage in Kannada
- ಎಲೆಕೋಸು elekōsu
- cabbage in Punjabi
- ਬੰਦ ਗੋਭੀ band gobhī
- cabbage in Gujarati
- કોબી kobī
- cabbage in Odia
- କ୍ଯ଼ାବଗେଜିଂ, କ୍ଯ଼ାବେଜିଂ
- cabbage in Sanskrit
- केम्बुक kembuka, कपिशाक kapiśāka
- cabbage in Assamese
- কবি kobi, বন্ধাকবি bondhakobi
- cabbage in Nepali
- गोभी gobhī, बन्दगोभी bandagobhī
- cabbage in Tagalog
- repolyo
- cabbage in Arabic
- مَلْفُوف malfūf, كُرُنْب kurunb
- cabbage in Malay
- kubis
- cabbage in Indonesian
- kubis, kol
- cabbage in Thai
- กะหล่ำปลี gà-làm-bplii, กะหล่ำใบ, ใบกะหล่ำ bai gà-làm, เป็นผัก
- cabbage in Vietnamese
- cải bắp
- cabbage in Myanmar
- ဂေါ်ဖီထုပ် gauhpihtup
Examples of cabbage in a sentence
- The man kept a pen with two pigs that he fed everything from carrots to cabbage.
- Brussels sprouts reach a length of 4 centimeters and resemble clusters of miniature cabbages.
- This kind of cabbage heads early.
Synonyms of cabbage
Forms of cabbage
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cabbages |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cabbages |
| present participle | cabbaging |
| past participle | cabbaged |
| past | cabbaged |
Origin of 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).
Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch *kabbassen, from Old French cabasser (“put into a basket”), from cabas. Alternatively, perhaps from an earlier word *carbage (“shred”), a potential variant of *garbage (“wheat straw”).
Words formed from cabbage
- 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
- Lundy cabbage
- meadow 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
- stuffed cabbage
Phrases with cabbage
- cabbage gums
- Cabbage Town
- wild cabbage
- cabbage flies
- cabbage heads
- cabbage moths
- Cabbage Night
- cabbage palms
- cabbage rolls
- cabbage roses
- cabbage trees
- cabbage worms
22 more phrasesFewer phrases
- water cabbage
- white cabbage
- cabbage aphids
- Cabbage Nights
- cabbage salads
- cabbage whites
- cabbage loopers
- cabbage patches
- cabbage lettuces
- cabbage palmetto
- warrigal cabbage
- cabbage palmettos
- sugarloaf cabbage
- cabbage root flies
- Cabbage Tree Creek
- sweetheart cabbage
- wallflower cabbage
- cabbage butterflies
- harlequin cabbage bugs
- imported cabbage worms
- thousand-headed cabbage
- Billy Williams' Cabbage Patch
Words that rhyme with cabbage
Questions about cabbage
- What does cabbage mean?
- Cabbage means an edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
- What is cabbage in Hindi?
- Cabbage in Hindi is पत्ता गोभी (pattā gobhī), बंद गोभी (band gobhī), गोभी (gobhī). See Cabbage meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cabbage?
- Cabbage can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cabbage?
- Cabbage is pronounced /ˈkæbɪd͡ʒ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cabbage?
- The plural of cabbage is cabbages.
Words near cabbage in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cabbage (page history and authors); cabbage (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कोबी (Marathi) (page history and authors); কপি (Bengali) (page history and authors); cabbage (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કોબી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); cabbage (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कपिशाक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); কবি (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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