Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - cabbage
Cabbage
cabbage
n. 1 a any of several cultivated varieties of Brassica oleracea, with thick green or purple leaves forming a round heart or head. b this head usu. eaten as vegetable. 2 colloq. derog. a person who is inactive or lacks interest. Phrases and idioms cabbage palm a palm tree, Cordyline australis, with edible cabbage-like terminal buds. cabbage rose a double rose with a large round compact flower. cabbage tree = cabbage palm. cabbage white a butterfly, Pieris brassicae, whose caterpillars feed on cabbage leaves. Derivatives cabbagy adj. Etymology: earlier cabache, -oche f. OF (Picard) caboche head, OF caboce, of unkn. orig.
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English caboche, from Middle French dialect (Norman & Picard), literally, head, noggin Date: 15th century 1. any of several brassicas (Brassica oleracea) of European origin, any of several plants related to or resembling ~, money, cash, ~y also cabbagy adjective II. noun Etymology: perhaps by folk etymology from Middle French cabas cheating, theft pieces of cloth left in cutting out garments and traditionally kept by tailors as perquisites, III. transitive verb (~d; cabbaging) Date: 1691 steal, filch ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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