• IPA: /ˈkæbɪd͡ʒ/

From Middle English caboche, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman - caboche ("head"), a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain origin.

cabbage

1. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
2. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

   Cabbage is good for you.

3. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.

   After the car crash, he became a cabbage.

4. Used as a term of endearment.
5. (uncountable, slang) Money.
6. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
7. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
8. The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
9. (slang, AAVE) The human head.

• (plant) cabbage plant, cole
• (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable) cole, greens
• (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage) vegetable

• French: chou
• German: Kohl
• Italian: cavolo
• Portuguese: repolho, couve
• Russian: капу́ста
• Spanish: col, repollo, berza

• French: chou
• German: Kohl
• Italian: cavolo
• Portuguese: repolho
• Russian: капу́ста
• Spanish: col, repollo, berza

• Portuguese: vegetal
• Russian: о́вощ
• Spanish: vegetal

• Russian: капу́ста
• Spanish: pasta

cabbage (cabbages, present participle cabbaging; simple past and past participle cabbaged)

1. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.

   to make lettuce cabbage

2. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.
   • 2006, Steve Mckevitt, Why the World Is Full of Useless Things, page 38:

     How effective the project was is a moot point, because there were never any studies carried out to see whether children benefited from cabbaging in front of the TV rather than interacting with a teacher.

3. (slang, AAVE) To be killed or murdered, such as by being shot in the head.

Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch , from Old French cabasser, from cabas.

cabbage (uncountable)

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

cabbage (cabbages, present participle cabbaging; simple past and past participle cabbaged)

1. (transitive) To embezzle or purloin; to pilfer, to steal.
   • 1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. [The First Part.] Chapter X. Of John Bull’s Second Wife, and the Good Advice that She Gave Him.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] Benjamin Motte, […], →OCLC ↗, page 30 ↗:

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

   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC ↗:

     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.