Cabbage
noun
A vegetable with green or purple leaves, grown for eating.
She added a head of cabbage to the soup for extra flavor.
Often appears as...
- head of cabbage
- cabbage soup
noun
The quality of being stupid and mentally slow.
He's a bit of a cabbage when it comes to technology.
Often appears as...
- bit of a cabbage
- complete cabbage
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
To steal or pilfer.
He's been cabbaging food from the kitchen without anyone noticing.
Often appears as...
- cabbaging food
- cabbaging supplies
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Money, especially in the form of bills.
He handed over a wad of cabbage for the car.
Often appears as...
- wad of cabbage
- pile of cabbage
Usage tips
Informal
noun
A vegetable with green or purple leaves, grown for eating.
She added a head of cabbage to the soup for extra flavor.
Often appears as...
- head of cabbage
- cabbage soup
noun
The quality of being stupid and mentally slow.
He's a bit of a cabbage when it comes to technology.
Often appears as...
- bit of a cabbage
- complete cabbage
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Colloquial
noun
To steal or pilfer.
He's been cabbaging food from the kitchen without anyone noticing.
Often appears as...
- cabbaging food
- cabbaging supplies
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Money, especially in the form of bills.
He handed over a wad of cabbage for the car.
Often appears as...
- wad of cabbage
- pile of cabbage
Usage tips
Informal
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Vegetable Usage
Used commonly in cooking and food-related discussions to identify a type of leafy vegetable.
Could you buy some cabbage for tonight's dinner salad?
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Green
Remember, cabbages can be purple too; color indicates a specific variety.
My garden has both green and purple cabbages.
Pro Tip 1/2Vegetable Usage
Used commonly in cooking and food-related discussions to identify a type of leafy vegetable.
Could you buy some cabbage for tonight's dinner salad?
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Green
Remember, cabbages can be purple too; color indicates a specific variety.
My garden has both green and purple cabbages.
Pro Tip 1/2Vegetable Usage
Used commonly in cooking and food-related discussions to identify a type of leafy vegetable.
Could you buy some cabbage for tonight's dinner salad?
Pro Tip 2/2Not Just Green
Remember, cabbages can be purple too; color indicates a specific variety.
My garden has both green and purple cabbages.
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Are spotty fruits and...
So the next time you're at the grocery store, don't be afraid to pick up funky-looking fruit. Some stores will even give you a discount. Wash them well and store them properly, as some produce like apples and cabbages will keep in the fridge for weeks. The spotty ones may not be eye candy, but they're safe and just as delicious.
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Steven Pinker and...
Governments executed people for frivolous reasons, like stealing a cabbage or criticizing the royal garden. The executions were designed to be as prolonged and as painful as possible, like crucifixion, disembowelment, breaking on the wheel. Respectable people kept slaves. For all our flaws, we have abandoned
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How nationalism and...
how would you make it without the tomatoes of the New World? No, instead, you would be served probably a lot of porridge, some vegetable -- mostly cabbage -- some cheese, and maybe if you're lucky, the absolute delicacy of that time --
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Elevating simple...
decided to see this unlikeable vegetable as a challenge so one day I was looking through a list of ingredients that were in season and I saw a beets purple cabbage and cranberries I had no clue if it was gonna taste even remotely good
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Sumo Wrestling 101 PIPE...
about sumo is the sheer size of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the ring girth is advantageous the rules are
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Sumo Wrestling PIPE...
about sumo is the sheer size of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the ring girth is advantageous the rules are
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Sumo PIPE National...
of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the ring girth is advantageous the rules are simple knock your opponent
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Why should you read...
and delightfully unsavory scenarios. In her spare time O’Connor drew cartoons, and her writing is also brimming with caricature. In her stories, a mother has a face “as broad and innocent as a cabbage,”
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These Caterpillars Never...
her wing muscles one of the few instances of an insect using a tool in a few days time when the egg hatches the grub will find fresh meat awaiting it these cabbage white caterpillars are
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Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
making sure all is good because of her cubs when it respects this female here what means such a great job to make sure that say I was carrying my cabbages mrs.
Video examples
Are spotty fruits and...
So the next time you're at the grocery store, don't be afraid to pick up funky-looking fruit. Some stores will even give you a discount. Wash them well and store them properly, as some produce like apples and cabbages will keep in the fridge for weeks. The spotty ones may not be eye candy, but they're safe and just as delicious.
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
Governments executed people for frivolous reasons, like stealing a cabbage or criticizing the royal garden. The executions were designed to be as prolonged and as painful as possible, like crucifixion, disembowelment, breaking on the wheel. Respectable people kept slaves. For all our flaws, we have abandoned
Video examples
How nationalism and...
how would you make it without the tomatoes of the New World? No, instead, you would be served probably a lot of porridge, some vegetable -- mostly cabbage -- some cheese, and maybe if you're lucky, the absolute delicacy of that time --
Video examples
Elevating simple...
decided to see this unlikeable vegetable as a challenge so one day I was looking through a list of ingredients that were in season and I saw a beets purple cabbage and cranberries I had no clue if it was gonna taste even remotely good
Video examples
Sumo Wrestling 101 PIPE...
about sumo is the sheer size of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the ring girth is advantageous the rules are
Video examples
Sumo Wrestling PIPE...
about sumo is the sheer size of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the ring girth is advantageous the rules are
Video examples
Sumo PIPE National...
of the wrestlers a traditional diet that includes choco lava a stew made from fatty meats cabbage eggs and bean sprouts helps them bulk up entering the ring girth is advantageous the rules are simple knock your opponent
Video examples
Why should you read...
and delightfully unsavory scenarios. In her spare time O’Connor drew cartoons, and her writing is also brimming with caricature. In her stories, a mother has a face “as broad and innocent as a cabbage,”
Video examples
These Caterpillars Never...
her wing muscles one of the few instances of an insect using a tool in a few days time when the egg hatches the grub will find fresh meat awaiting it these cabbage white caterpillars are
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 265 PIPE...
making sure all is good because of her cubs when it respects this female here what means such a great job to make sure that say I was carrying my cabbages mrs.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Gil Marks
American Writer
People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.
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Richard Simmons
American Celebrity
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
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Suzanne Somers
American Actress
Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?
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Nobu Matsuhisa
Japanese Chef
One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?
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Heidi Klum
German Model
I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten
French Chef
This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.
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Laurie Graham
English Journalist
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
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Roger McGough
British Poet
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
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Red Smith
American Journalist
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
Quote examples
Gil Marks
American Writer
People remember the different variations of stuffed cabbage based on their mothers and grandmothers. It's not just about food. Eating something as traditional as this is a cultural experience, one that is spiritual and nostalgic. It manages to transcend time; it's food for the soul.
Quote examples
Richard Simmons
American Celebrity
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
Quote examples
Suzanne Somers
American Actress
Diets - the ultimate empty promise perpetuating the same cycle over and over again. We've all been victims of yo-yo dieting. We stick to some diets longer than others, but c'mon, just how much cabbage soup can a person eat?
Quote examples
Nobu Matsuhisa
Japanese Chef
One day, the people who work in my kitchen stir-fried chopped Napa cabbage to serve with some meat or fish for their own dinner. I got to thinking: 'What if the cabbage was the most important thing on the plate?
Quote examples
Heidi Klum
German Model
I'd say I'm a good cook. I have a lot of German recipes that I can make - schnitzel, meatballs and things with cabbage. I love cabbage.
Quote examples
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
French Chef
This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.
Quote examples
Laurie Graham
English Journalist
I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.
Quote examples
Roger McGough
British Poet
I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.
Quote examples
Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Quote examples
Red Smith
American Journalist
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
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