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cabbage

[kab-ij] / ˈkæb ɪdʒ /


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Cargil and his son, Ryan, had spent months nursing crops of cabbage and onions to harvest.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Animal rights activists want a small seaside town to change its annual mackerel festival to celebrate the humble cabbage instead.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Much of the menu is prepared over a live hearth, and traditional Polish dishes sit alongside inventive creations like duck confit cabbage rolls and pork belly pączki.

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

On a recent morning, Nones took photos for a cookbook, shooting portraits of residents who submitted recipes for Romanian stuffed cabbage and gumbo, coaching them from his chair.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

She had been trapped inside a bag that smelled like earth and rotten cabbage.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

But, worse . . . state and city officials have cabbaged on to this beautiful protective machinery we have placed in their hands.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Who's the nervy party with the chin whiskers that's cabbaged Hinpoha?" asked the Captain of Sahwah, scowling crossly after the leading boat, which was already drawing away from the rest of the party.

From The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit Or, over the Top with the Winnebagos by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey

"We cabbaged them; it was the best we could do," said Egan.

From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis

All except one—that one lay in the plate of the man from whom I had cabbaged the lot.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

She got a quart, and I cabbaged half for my tea-party.'

From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading—room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.

From Mark Twain's Speeches by Mark Twain

Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"

From Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various

The next step I took was to order William Francis, John Thompson, Samuel Picket, and Joshua Peck to be taken into custody, on their return from cabbaging.

From An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter


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