Adjective: cabbagey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | cabbagier |
| Superlative | cabbagiest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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Emma had produced a cabbagey, beety soup with strips of last night's boiled beef in it, chunks of yesterday's potatoes and dumplings thrown in […] [2011, Laurie Campbell, A Stitch in Time, page 429:]
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She had awoken two hours later in the cabbagey-plasticky fug of her tent feeling deadly certain that she had failed somehow, that he had been expecting something to happen between them, and now it wouldn't happen—or couldn't happen—because she was no longer on her own. [2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 201:]
Adjectives inflected like cabbagey
snipey,
scaley,
smiley,
slicey,
slimey,
slatey,
shitey,
blowsey,
plaguey,
breezey,
schemey,
smudgey,
smidgey,
douchey,
greasey,
cabbagey,
chocolatey,
cliquey,
squiggley,
dog-whistley, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology