different between cabbage vs coleslaw

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæb?d?/
• Hyphenation: cab?bage
• Homophones: CABG (one pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -æb?d?

Etymology 1

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”)..

Noun

cabbage (countable and uncountable, plural cabbages)

1. An edible plant (Brassica oleracea var. capitata) having a head of green leaves.
2. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable.

   Cabbage is good for you.

3. (countable, offensive) A person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage.

   After the car crash, he became a cabbage.

4. Used as a term of endearment.
5. (uncountable, slang) Money.
6. (uncountable, slang) Marijuana leaf, the part that is not smoked but from which cannabutter can be extracted.
7. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used for food.
8. The cabbage palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a palm of the southeastern US coasts and nearby islands.
9. Leftover scraps of fabric.

Synonyms

• (plant): cabbage plant, cole
• (leaves of this plant eaten as a vegetable): cole, greens
• (person with severely reduced mental capacities due to brain damage): vegetable

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: kabisi
• ? Abenaki: kabij

Translations

Verb

cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)

1. (intransitive) To form a head like that of the cabbage.

2. (intransitive, slang) To do nothing; to idle; veg out.

See also

• brassica
• broccoflower
• broccoli
• broccolini
• Brussels sprouts
• cabbage tree
• carbage
• cauliflower
• Chinese cabbage
• Chinese broccoli, Chinese kale
• collard greens
• kale
• kohlrabi
• sauerkraut
• red cabbage

Etymology 2

Unclear. Perhaps from Dutch *kabbassen, from Old French cabasser (“put into a basket”), from cabas. Alternatively, perhaps from an earlier word *carbage (“shred”), a potential variant of *garbage (“wheat straw”).

Noun

cabbage (uncountable)

1. (uncountable, slang) Scraps of cloth which are left after a garment has been cut out, which tailors traditionally kept.

Verb

cabbage (third-person singular simple present cabbages, present participle cabbaging, simple past and past participle cabbaged)

1. (transitive) To purloin or embezzle; to pilfer, to steal.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     Your tailor […] cabbages whole yards of cloth.

Synonyms

• (purloin): embezzle, pilfer, purloin, steal

References

English

Alternative forms

• cole slaw (US)

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch koolsla (mentioned in English as the Dutch name by at least in 1794), from kool (“cabbage”) + sla (“salad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??lsl??/
• Rhymes: -??lsl??

Noun

coleslaw (usually uncountable, plural coleslaws)

1. A salad of finely shredded raw cabbage and sometimes shredded carrots, dressed with mayonnaise (white slaw) or a vinaigrette (red slaw).

Synonyms

• slaw (US, Canada)

Descendants

• ? Dutch: coleslaw
• ? Japanese: ??????
• ? Polish: coleslaw

Translations

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?l.sl??/
• Hyphenation: cole?slaw

Noun

coleslaw m (uncountable)

1. coleslaw

Polish

Alternative forms

• coles?aw
• koles?aw

Etymology

From English coleslaw, from Dutch koolsla. Colloquial pronunciation results from similarity of the word to the Polish given name Boles?aw.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (standard) /?k?l.sl?w/, (colloquial) /k??l?.swaf/

Noun

coleslaw m inan (indeclinable)

1. coleslaw salad

Further reading

• coleslaw in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• coleslaw in Polish dictionaries at PWN