Noun: cabbage
| Singular | cabbage |
| Plural | cabbages |
Sample Sentences
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In aphrodisiac preparation, wild cabbage was frequently an ingredient. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 53:]
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Cabbage is good for you.
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After the car crash, he became a cabbage.
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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. [2009, Tom Stoppard, Helen Rappaport, The Cherry Orchard, translation of Вишнëвый сад ("Vishniovy sad") by Anton Chekhov, published 1904, page 31:]
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American made choppas / You beefin', we split ya cabbage [2024, “Cult Status”, performed by JPEGMAFIA:]
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That shot left me in the cabbage!
Nouns inflected like cabbage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old French caboce
3. Anglo-Norman cabochebor.
4. Middle English caboche
5. English cabbage
6. 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). See: Middle English Nouns '
caboche', Latin Nouns '
caput'.
Verbs referencing "cabbage"
French Nouns
caboche, Irish Nouns
cabáiste, Zulu Nouns
iklabishi.