cabbaged

Meanings

• Verb

  To treat (food) roughly, especially by overcooking or allowing it to become soggy.

  - "She cabbaged the Brussels sprouts by boiling them for too long."
  - "The chef cabbaged the potatoes, making them mushy and unappetizing."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with cabbaged
cabbage , dragged , tagged

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Variants

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cabbage , cabbaged , cabbages , cabbaging

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Etymology

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Originally meant 'to stuff (a cabbage) with meat and other ingredients'. The term later came to mean 'to treat (food) roughly, especially by overcooking or allowing it to become soggy'.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'cabbaged' is believed to have originated in the 16th century.

2. Cabbaging is not limited to food; it can also be used metaphorically to describe the mistreatment or misuse of other things.

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Related Concepts

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1. Overcooking: The process of cooking food for too long, resulting in a loss of texture, flavor, and nutrients.

2. Sogginess: A state of being wet and soft, often undesirable in food.

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Culture

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In literature, cabbaging is used metaphorically to describe the mistreatment or misuse of something. For instance, in George Bernard Shaw's play 'Pygmalion,' the character Eliza Doolittle refers to her own past as a 'cabbage,' implying that she was once treated poorly.

How to Memorize "cabbaged"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize the process of overcooking food, making it mushy and unappetizing.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'cabbage' with the image of overcooked food.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the acronym CABBAGE: Cooking Abnormally Beyond Boiling, Giving An Extremely Gross Experience.

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