cabbage

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make off with belongings of others

   They cabbaged coats at a club.

2. 2
   noun

   An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.

   In aphrodisiac preparation, wild cabbage was frequently an ingredient.

3. 3
   noun

   The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

   Cabbage is good for you.

4. 4
   noun

   A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.

   After the car crash, he became a cabbage.

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   A human head.

   American made choppas / You beefin', we split ya cabbage

7. 7
   verb

   To form a head like that of the cabbage.

   to make lettuce cabbage

8. 8
   verb

   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.

Etymology

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).