different between cabbage vs parsley

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

Etymology

From Middle English persely, from Old French peresil, from Latin petrosel?num, from Ancient Greek ???????????? (petrosél?non, “parsley”), from ?????? (pétros, “rock, stone”) + ??????? (sél?non, “celery”). Displaced Old English petersili?e, which goes back to the same root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??(?)sli/

Noun

parsley (usually uncountable, plural parsleys)

1. (countable, uncountable) A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
2. (uncountable) The leaves of this plant used in Middle Eastern, European, and American cooking.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Players, parleys, players, prelays, replays, sparely