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cabbage

noun

  1. Cultivars of Brassica oleracea with dense-leaved heads.
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verb

  1. to appropriate offcuts of cloth
  2. to steal, pilfer
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkæbɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈkabɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈkɛbəd͡ʒ/

noun

Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch *kabbassen, from Old French cabasser (“put into a basket”), from cabas. Alternatively, perhaps from an earlier word *carbage (“shred”), a potential variant of *garbage (“wheat straw”).

  1. Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.

verb

Etymology: Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch *kabbassen, from Old French cabasser (“put into a basket”), from cabas. Alternatively, perhaps from an earlier word *carbage (“shred”), a potential variant of *garbage (“wheat straw”).

  1. To embezzle or purloin; to pilfer, to steal.

    [Y]our Butler purloins your Liquor, and your Brevver ſells your Hogvvaſh; […] your Taylor, inſtead of Shreds, cabages vvhole Yards of Cloth; […]

    We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.