cabbage

Meanings

Noun

• An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
• The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.
• A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.
• Money.
• Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
• The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
• The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto (species)), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
• Leftover scraps of fabric.
• Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.

Verb

• To form a head like that of the cabbage.
• To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
• To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.

Related

Similar words

• cabbage plant, cole
• cole, greens
• vegetable
• embezzle, pilfer, purloin, steal

Origin

• From Middle English caboche ("cabbage”; “a certain fish"), a borrowing from Anglo-Norman caboche, a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain origin. Some authorities derive it from Latin caput ("head"),.
• Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch, from Old French cabasser ("put into a basket"), from cabas. Alternatively, perhaps from an earlier word *carbage, a potential variant of *garbage.