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cabbage

[kab-ij] / ˈkæb ɪdʒ /


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I chopped up a head of green cabbage, coated it with the miso butter and let the oven do the rest.

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

Emma Orlow, a writer for the digital food publication Caper, favors Tashkent’s stuffed cabbage and manti, Uzbek steamed dumplings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

I enjoyed classic Scottish food like full Scottish breakfasts with haggis and blood pudding; chicken rumbledethumps, a dish with mashed potatoes, cabbage and cheese; Tennents lager and single-malt Scotch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

For two days, we eat cabbage and potatoes, and on the second day, there’s not much of that.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Third, against O'Brallaghan; the cause: impudence on various occasions, and slanderous reports relating to cabbaged cloth since the period of their dissolving all connection with each other.

From The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

In an evil moment he "cabbaged" some cloth, was detected, tried, condemned, and sentenced to twenty months' imprisonment.

From Prisoner for Blasphemy by G. W. (George William) Foote

Bacon treats of the instrument in his “Novum Organum;” from which Newton cabbaged his ideas in his “Principia,” in the most unprincipled manner.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 14, 1841 by Various

They run out of all they cabbaged here perty quick.

From Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee

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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