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cabbage

[kab-ij] / ˈkæb ɪdʒ /


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My beloved shredded cabbage would also be wonderful here if you’re in the mood for extra crunch.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

I steamed frozen corn and edamame, and tossed a generous pile of shredded red cabbage with sesame oil.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

My first instinct was to go the baked-macaroni-and-cheese route: lightly toast some panko, scatter it over the cabbage, then return the whole thing to the oven.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

After about 30 minutes at 350 degrees, with a stir halfway through, the cabbage had softened into silky folds, with a little browning at the edges.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

She was like a great white soggy overboiled cabbage.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To have cabbaged at one time all the sail-cloth that was required would have risked discovery; they therefore appropriated small scraps each day, and sewed these neatly together until they had enough.

From The Battle and the Breeze by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

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

From In the Roaring Fifties by Edward Dyson

"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

The shorn tailor left the office protesting that Sir Peter had not treated him handsomely, as he had only consented to sacrifice his flowing locks, but that the Alderman had cabbaged his whiskers as well.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 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

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

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

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


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