cabbage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A round vegetable with thick green or white leaves, eaten cooked or raw.

   She chopped a cabbage to make a fresh salad.

2. 2
   verb

   To secretly take something that belongs to someone else.

   Someone cabbaged my umbrella from the office.

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).

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