cabbage

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Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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Definition

  1. noun any of various types of cabbage
  2. noun informal terms for money
  3. noun any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers

Etymology

From Middle English caboche, cabage (“cabbage”; “a certain fish”), a borrowing from Anglo-Norman caboche (“head”), a northern variant of caboce, of uncertain origin. Some authorities derive it from Latin caput (“head”), others from ca- (said to be an expressive prefix) + boce (“hump; bump”) (whence English boss).

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Synonyms

chou

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