Definitions for cabbage

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cabbage cab·bage

Spelling: [kab-ij]

IPA: /ˈkæb ɪdʒ/

Cabbage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in cabbage (aabbceg).

Definitions for cabbage

noun

1. any of several cultivated varieties of a plant, Brassica oleracea capitata, of the mustard family, having a short stem and leaves formed into a compact, edible head.
2. the head or leaves of this plant, eaten cooked or raw.
3. Slang. money, especially paper money.
4. Chiefly British Informal. a stupid, dull, or spiritless person. a mentally impaired person who is unable to live independently; vegetable.
5. Chiefly British. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim. Also called cab. such scraps used for reprocessing.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to steal; pilfer:

Origin of cabbage

1350-1400; Middle English caboche, caboge, cabage head of cabbage dialectal Old French (Picardy, Normandy) literally, head, noggin, equivalent to ca- formative in expressive words, of uncerta

Examples for cabbage

Here, the breeze is cool and crops like rice, cabbage, beans and the all-important chilies grow in abundance.

The stewed cabbage is insanely tender, vegetable-sweet, and more luxurious than cabbage has a right to be.

But equally super are Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cabbage.

The cooking odors of cabbage and meatloaf and carrots drifted through doorways.

There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.

On going to his place in the House, he was overheard to say, "It must have been that cabbage."

Some trap them by placing slices of cabbage or raw potato about.

Quarter the cabbage lengthways, and then slice it crossways.

cabbage Soup may be made in the same manner, of neck of mutton.

The pork and the cabbage should be thoroughly done, and tender throughout.