noun
cabbage
KAB-ij/ˈkæbɪdʒ/
A vegetable forming a dense head of leaves.
A cut cabbage reveals its tightly packed layers of green leaves.
Etymology
Old North French caboche meant “head” and also “cabbage.” The vegetable's rounded mass of tightly packed leaves supplied the resemblance, preserved in the familiar expression “a head of cabbage.”
In context
The main um vegetable is cabbage. >> You put a fair amount of cabbage in there >> and you wilt it down
More examples
- She shredded the cabbage for slaw.
- The old crime story uses cabbage as slang for cash.
- Calling a severely disabled person a cabbage is offensive and dehumanizing.
Forms
cabbage · cabbages
Similar words
- lettuce
- Another leafy vegetable, usually with looser leaves and a different texture.