Cabbage
An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages.
The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below.
The cabbage palmetto. See below.
To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage.
To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer.
Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments.
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Cabbage Quotations
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce
I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.
Natalie Portman
I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
Ellen Burstyn
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
Richard Simmons
At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.
Jilly Cooper
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.
Roger McGough
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
Red Smith
Cabbage Translations
cabbage in Dutch is kool
cabbage in Finnish is kaali
cabbage in French is chou
cabbage in German is Kohl
cabbage in Portuguese is repolho, couve
cabbage in Spanish is col
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