| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Cabbage.[Websters]
2. To have dolled. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have swiped, mooched or shoplifted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To have scrounged or pilfered. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have purloined or snitched. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have thieved, filched or snooped. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have robbed or nicked.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb cabbage.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cabbage) | 1. Make off with belongings of others.[Wordnet]. 2. To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.[Websters]. 3. To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: cabbaging, cabbaged, cabbages, cabbager, cabbagers, cabbagingly and cabbagedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CABBAGED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1670. (references) |
Specialty Definition: cabbage
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Satire | 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. Source: Devil's Dictionary | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: To cut heads of cabbage, denotes that you are tightening the cords of calamity around you by lavish expenditure. 2: 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. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Literature | 1: "Some drops of sweat happening to light on the earth produced what mortals call cabbage."- R. ibelais: Pantagruel, book iv. (Prologue). 2: Cabbage (To). To filch. Sometimes a tailor is called "cabbage," from his pilfering cloth given him to make up. Thus in Motteux's Rabelais, iv. 52, we read of "Poor Cabbage's hair." (Old French, cabas, theft, verb cabasser; Dutch, kabassen; Swedish, grabba; Danish, griber, our grab,) 3: Cabbage It is said that no sort of food causes so much thirst as cabbage, especially that called colewort. Pausanias tells us it first sprang from the sweat of Jupiter, some drops of which fell on the earth. Coelius, Rhodiginus, Ovid, Suidas, and others repeat the same fable. 4: Cabbage is also a common schoolboy term for a literary crib, or other petty theft. 5: "Your tailor, instead of shreds, cabbages whole yards of cloth."- Arbuthnot's John Bull. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | CABBAGE. Cloth, stuff, or silkpurloined by laylors from their employers, which they deposit in a place called HELL, or their EYE: from the first, when taxed, with their knavery, they equivocally swear, that if they have taken any, they wish they may find. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
| Statistics | A member of the family of cruciferous vegetables. Red cabbage tastes similar to green. Shredded raw or cooked red cabbage will run and discolor other foods. The color also fades when cooked. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
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Common Expressions: cabbage
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cabbage aphis | (Zo["o]l.), a green plant-louse (Aphis brassic[ae]) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Cabbage bark | Tree with shaggy unpleasant-smelling toxic bark and yielding strong durable wood; bark and seeds used as a purgative and vermifuge and narcotic. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Cabbage beetle | (Zo["o]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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Cabbage butterfly | 1: (Zo["o]l.), a white butterfly (Pieris rap[ae] 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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: White butterfly whose larvae (cabbageworms) feed on cabbage. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Cabbage fly | (Zo["o]l.), a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia brassic[ae]), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 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. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Cabbage Moth | The Cabbage Moth (Mamestra brassicae) is a common European moth of the family Noctuidae. (references) | ||
| Cabbage palm | 1: Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| 2: Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 3: West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| 4: Low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Cabbage palmetto | 1: A species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| 2: Low-growing fan-leaved palm of coastal southern United States having edible leaf buds. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | |||
| Cabbage Palmetto | The Cabbage Palmetto or Sabal Palm (Sabal palmetto) is one of about 14 species of palmetto palm (Arecaceae, genus Sabal). It is native to the southeastern United States, ranging throughout Florida and into coastal Georgia and South Carolina, north to southernmost North Carolina. A disjunct population also exists on Cape Hatteras. It is extremely salt-tolerant and is often seen growing near the Atlantic Ocean coast, and also frost-tolerant, surviving temperatures as low as -14ºC (8ºC). (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: cabbage
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Cabbage head | Health | An individual who will use or experiment with any kind of drug. (references) | |
| Cabbage turnip | Statistics | A member of the turnip family, a favorite vegetable of Eastern Europeans, Germans, and Asians. It's not a root, but actually a swollen stem that is globe-shaped with green stems from which spring collard-like leaves. The bulbs can be green or purple in color. It's sweeter, juicier, crisper, and more delicate in flavor than a turnip. The cooked leaves have a kale/collard flavor. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Palm cabbage | Food & Agriculture | The terminal bud of the date palm. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Red cabbage | Statistics | The red cultivated variety of Brassica oleracea with purple leaves forming a round heart or head. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Skunk cabbage | Aerospace | Skunk cabbage is a robust native herb found in wet marshy areas in parts of eastern Canada. Ingesting the plant can cause intense pain and irritation in the mouth area after chewing the roots or leaves (Lampe and McCann 1985). No case reports of such irritation were found in the literature for humans or livestock. General symptoms of poisoning: 1- Humans: a- aphonia; b- dysphagia; c- hoarseness; and d- mouth, irritation of. (references) | |
| To let out cabbage | MultiLingual Slang | Swiss German (chabis useloo). (references) | |
| Wild cabbage | Aerospace | Brassica oleracea includes common cultivated crops such as kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage. All these vegetables are capable of forming toxic quantities of SMCO, a chemical that can cause hemolytic anemia in livestock. These plants also contain glucosinolates, which can cause goiter. In general, these widely used vegetables are safe for human consumption. Cases of livestock poisoning occur when they are used almost exclusively as fodder for animals (Kingsbury 1964, Smith 1980, Cheeke and Schull 1985, Benevenga et al. 1989). Glucosinolates contained in kale, cabbage, and broccoli (Brassica oleracea) can cause goiter in humans. These plants cause goiter in less than 5% of cases in humans. The chemicals cause a reduction in performance of young livestock, especially swine and poultry (Fenwick et al. 1989). It is important to note that the frequency of toxicity has dropped dramatically since a few decades ago. Researchers have changed the quantity of toxic compounds in the entire Brassica spp., creating new cultivars with lower quantities of these chemicals. The threat of poisoning from some of the plants has diminished or virtually disappeared in some cultivars. For example, the Canadian development of rapeseed into the so-called "double-zero" cultivars (low in glucosinolates and in erucic acid) has allowed rapeseed meal to be used for livestock at much higher levels without reducing performance (Cheeke and Schull 1985). SMCO is most abundant in young leaves and growing points. Brussels sprouts can have high amounts of the chemical, as can the flowering parts of the plants. The most drastic hemolytic anemia occurs when these plants form exclusive fodder for livestock (Smith 1980). Glucosinolates are chemicals that can inhibit the function of the thyroid gland. Various components of the chemicals can be detrimental to both humans and livestock. Goitrin inhibits thyroid function. Thiocynates and isothiocyanates inhibit iodine uptake by the thyroid gland. Nitriles can be formed from glucosinolates and these chemicals are toxic, affecting the liver and kidneys (Cheeke and Schull 1985). SMCO (S-methyl-L-cysteine sulfoxide) is an alpha-amino acid that causes hemolytic anemia in livestock. This chemical is restricted to various members of the family Cruciferae in the genera Brassica and Raphanus as well as the family Liliaceae in the genus Allium (onions). Additional notes on this chemical can be found under members of these genera. The concentration of SMCO in kale plants may double as the plants mature. The quantity of SMCO is increased with the addition of nitrogen to high-sulfate soils. SMCO can be greatly reduced in low-sulfate soils. The variation of SMCO varies greatly amongst different varieties of plants in the genus Brassica, suggesting that concentrations of SMCO may be heritable (Benevenga et al. 1989). Glucosinolates in the plants can cause general reduced weight gain in young pigs (less than 20 kg) (Fenwick et al. 1989). General symptoms of poisoning: 1- Cattle: a- Heinz bodies; b- hemoglobinuria; and c- weight gain, reduced; 2- Goats, Poultry and Sheep: a- Heinz bodies; and b- hemoglobinuria; 3- Swine: weight gain, reduced; and 4- Humans: thyroid, enlarged. (references) | |
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