cabbagy

cabbagy

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Old French caboce
Anglo-Norman cabochebor.
Middle English caboche
English cabbage
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English cabbagy

    From cabbage + -y.

    Adjective

    cabbagy (comparative cabbagier, superlative cabbagiest)

    1. Resembling or characteristic of cabbage.
      • 2023, Jack Meggitt-Phillips, “The Educated Beast”, in Child of the Beast (The Beast and the Bethany; 4), London: Farshore, →ISBN:
        The beast’s attic was once the most dangerous room in the universe. It used to be deadlier than the war chambers of Mars, it was home to more corpses than the Graveyard of Dying Stars, and it had once smelled even cabbagier than the underground lair of the Grizzly Gardener of Grimsby.
    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.