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cabbage

[kab-ij] / ˈkæb ɪdʒ /


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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

In 1982, Il Yeon Kwon, a Korean immigrant, realized that New Yorkers needed a reliable source for napa cabbage, the essential ingredient in kimchi, and opened a small grocery store in Queens.

From Salon Jul. 23, 2026

The first night, I topped bowls with avocado and sour cream; the second, I spooned leftovers over white rice with shredded cabbage and green onion left over from another dinner earlier in the week.

From Salon May 19, 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

But then she thought about what he said, and she tried something new: She bought a small amount of chicken—a quarter pound—and mixed it with beans and cabbage.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

"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

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

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




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