Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cabbage-like: as, a cabbagy green.
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- adjective Resembling
cabbage
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Examples
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The tacos weren't the deep-fried, cabbagy baja monstrosities we see here, but rather big cubes of fish lightly sauteed with onions and peppers over corn tortillas, served of course, with copious amounts of guacamole.
Puerto Vallarta: Fish Tacos in Paradise tannaz 2008
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The tacos weren't the deep-fried, cabbagy baja monstrosities we see here, but rather big cubes of fish lightly sauteed with onions and peppers over corn tortillas, served of course, with copious amounts of guacamole.
Archive 2008-11-01 tannaz 2008
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There was just something about it, perhaps it was the way my mum cooked it until completely soft and mushy and slightly cabbagy; it is a member of the Brassica family after all.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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There was just something about it, perhaps it was the way my mum cooked it until completely soft and mushy and slightly cabbagy; it is a member of the Brassica family after all.
At My Table 2007
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I was pretty darn full after consuming that plate of cabbagy fishy goodness though, so I wasn't able to take on any of the outrageous looking desserts on the menu.
Archive 2005-10-01 Kate 2005
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He sniffed, catching the smell of his home, cabbagy same like any kitchen in the world, save with something sweeter in it, apples maybe, mouldering in a box.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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He sniffed, catching the smell of his home, cabbagy same like any kitchen in the world, save with something sweeter in it, apples maybe, mouldering in a box.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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She made her dinner off potatoes and bread, the former of which she declared, laughing, were very porky and cabbagy; her meal would have been an extremely light one, had it not been for the custard-pie.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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She made her dinner off potatoes and bread, the former of which she declared, laughing, were very porky and cabbagy; her meal would have been an extremely light one, had it not been for the custard - pie.
The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852
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She made her dinner off potatoes and bread, the former of which she declared, laughing, were very porky and cabbagy; her meal would have been an extremely light one had it not been for the custard-pie.
The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852
qroqqa commented on the word cabbagy
A thick, cabbagy, ham-bony soup which I imagined snoring gently in a large copper for five days or so.
— Julian Barnes, 1996, 'Gnossienne', in Cross Channel
July 10, 2008
reesetee commented on the word cabbagy
"Snoring gently." Ha!
July 11, 2008