cabbagedadj.1
/ˈkabɪdʒd/, U.S. /ˈkæbɪdʒd/ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [adjective] > of or like cabbage, broccoli, etc.
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loafed1578
cabbagy1705
white-heart1718
pe-tsai1788
broccoli-like1873
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 25 Cabegged Rape sowen after Rye.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xii. 217 The cabbaged lettuse.
1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked xii. §88 Colewort, which..becometh cabbaged.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at May If any of the Imperial Lettices are cabbaged.
1792 Bee 18 Apr. 263 A lettuce, when cabbaged, resists moisture.
1829 J. Major Treat. Insects 206 I have seen large plots of fine cabbaged Coss-Lettuce rendered entirely useless from the prevalence of these insects.
1856 W. N. White Gardening for South 231 Butter or Early Cabbage.—Heads small, white, crisp, and closely cabbaged.
1890 Vick’s Monthly Mag. June 184/1 By selecting plants that were well cabbaged at the top of every year, and keeping seeds from their side shoots alone, a very satisfactory strain of Lettuce seed resulted.
2. British slang. Incapacitated by drugs or alcohol (or their after-effects); extremely intoxicated. Cf. cabbage n.1 6.
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1991 Independent 23 Dec. 5/2 A minority get ‘cabbaged’ by taking between three and six tablets—a process known as ‘stacking’.
1994 Observer (Nexis) 23 Oct. 38 No end of them have been busted for dealing and locked up and others are messed up with cabbaged heads.
1997 M. Collin & J. Godfrey Altered State viii. 283 The influx of MDA ‘Snowballs’ resulted in squatting rows of cabbaged clubbers clinging desperately onto walls.
2009 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 4 Dec. 6 You come down to breakfast and see people cabbaged in the living room... It's a waste of life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
cabbagedadj.2
/ˈkabɪdʒd/, U.S. /ˈkæbɪdʒd/ colloquial.
Acquired inappropriately; pilfered, purloined; (also) plagiarized.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > petty theft or pilfering > [adjective] > pilfered > by a tailor
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1729 C. Coffey Beggar's Wedding i. i 9 I shall convert his cabbag'd Shreads into a Stone Doublet.
1827 B. H. Kennedy Let. 22 July in S. Butler Life S. Butler (1896) I. 331 I think my eye sufficiently practised to detect most of the few cabbaged verses which may have crept into the Play-books.
1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 41 673 I mean the cabbaged silk, cloth, dowlas lining, and so forth, for caps, sleeves, coats, petticoats, for your wives.
1856 J. E. Cooke Last of Foresters lv. 336 Every accusation of cabbaged cloth, and other things brought by his enemies.
1926 Amer. Mercury Feb. 237/2 They are down in their luck if at least half of the cabbaged boodle doesn't find its way into their pockets.
1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xxiii. 159 Near a stand filled with cabbaged strips of tailor's cloth, Claude bought a sober black frock.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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