cabbages

Sauerkraut's raw ingredient

Cabbages is the plural of cabbage, the leafy green vegetable with tightly packed leaves forming a dense head.

Beyond the vegetable, cabbage is British slang for money, and cabbages can mean idle or brain-dead people: The patients just sat there like cabbages.

To cabbage is to pilfer or appropriate—originally tailors' slang for keeping leftover cloth.

vegetable

kale

Loose-leafed cabbage relative

bok choy · kohlrabi · collards · savoy · napa · sauerkraut · kimchi · borscht · colcannon · cruciferous

money

cash

Ready spending funds

lettuce · moolah · bucks · funds · loot · paper · scratch · bankroll · wad · stacks

insult

dimwit

Foolish, slow person

nitwit · dunce · simpleton · fool · idiot

Categories
Opposites
vegetable type/category

cabbagesmeats

Animal tissue for consumption

fruits · grains · legumes · root vegetables · lettuce

FOOD PRESTIGE/SOPHISTICATION (metaphorical)

cabbagestruffles

Expensive edible fungi

caviar · filet mignon · lobster · champagne · delicacies

slang: money/valuables vs. worthlessness

cabbagesbroke

Lacking any funds

penniless · poverty · destitution · nothing · empty pockets

Phrases
Family

cabbage, cabbagehead

Familiarity
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Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G