Found insideInf. stupid Slang. Rare. I'm not so green as I'm cabbage-looking, i.e., 'I'm not as dumb as I look.' caboose, n. galley In America, the last car on a ... Found inside – Page 206brust 206 buccina many heads , each like a miniature cabbage ; an individual BTCVabbrev : British Trust for Conservation Volunteers . head from this . Found inside – Page 114A Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Colloquialisms Peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, Etc. Etc., ... In England , to cabbage is confined to tailor's slang , and means the appropriation of portions of the cloth confided to ... Found inside – Page 194It is used in trade union Your tailor , instead of shreds , cabbages whole yards of slang , and the method of " ca ' canny cloth . Found inside – Page 81cabbagecabbage n British a. the vagina b. a collective term for women, especially when seen as potential sexual conquests cabbagedcabbaged adj British drunk ... Found inside – Page 239gat: gangster slang for a handgun glad hand: a falsely ingratiating ... a socially inept or contemptible person jack: money kip: British slang for nap or ... Found inside – Page 3256 , 1976 6 a CBE ( Commander of the Order of the British Empire ) UK ... 119 , 1958 cabbage noun 1 money US , 1903 • Claims he's a human juke box and can ... Found inside – Page 196Kohl , cabbage , and connected with “ the long green , ” slang for paper money . In British slang , coal or cole meant money ; though Brewer explains it through rhyming slang for gold , its connection with Kohl seems equally likely . Cole - slaw ... Found inside – Page 271[ SE champ at the bit , ( of horses ) to be restive ] typical private soldier in the British army . [ SE chevalier , a Knight chew one's cabbage twice v ... Found inside – Page 28... Bess' was the nickname for the British Army's land pattern musket, ... (just as bubble and squeak is a cheap dish of leftover mashed potato and cabbage ... Found inside – Page 50CABBAGE: British slang for “sitting around doing nothing”; also slang for “catatonic.” Not to be recommended to idlers, then. See: ATARACTIC, COUCH POTATO, ... Found inside – Page 194It is used in trade union Your tailor , instead of shreds , cabbages whole yards of slang , and the method of " ca ' canny ... In British poliriage when compared with the contics , a deliberative committee of the temporary cumbersome vehicles . Found inside – Page 25Of course , the words cabbage , cool , and pot sound alike in their ordinary standard use and in their slang use . ... For example , George Washington used redcoat ( British soldier ) ; Winston Churchill used booze ( liquor ) ; and Lyndon B ... Found inside – Page 538Also , see “ stew ” and “ stewed , ” use of the term “ liberty cabbage ” was ... The slang term referred to a ally , and British sailors in particular ... Found inside – Page 226The term arose when Claudian was performed in 1885 at the Princess's Theatre. B.P. The British Public. Back-Hair Parts. “Rôles in which the agony of the ... Found inside – Page 148Webster III , for example , says of cabbage ( # 3 ) : ' British cloth remaining after the cutting of a garment and traditionally said to be appropriated by the tailor , as a perquisite . ' And the origin given is : ' perhaps by folk etymology from Middle ... Found inside3 Boshes is an adaptation of the British slang term Boches, an insulting reference to German soldiers (derived from the French caboche, cabbage or ... Found inside – Page 206... probably derived from seventh-century British slang (greenhead) for an ... beaner (Mexican), kraut or cabbage head (German), limey (British), ... Found inside – Page 43cabbage cabbaged caboodle Caesar caff cag can capisce CaptainCook card cardy cark carney ... OBSERVER The British papers quickly followed the American lead. Found inside – Page 1126 a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire). ... A loose pronunciation of the acronym CABG US, 1994 cabbage verb 1 to become vegetable-like UK, ... Found inside – Page 45... recorded by Maurer and Baker, 1944, who suppose it to be of British origin, but it is not even of British usage. cabbage hat Rat (an informer). Found inside – Page 1091981c. of Cabbages and tailors. ... Gussy up 'dress up,' British school slang gussy 'overdressed person' and Australian gussie 'affected man. Found inside – Page 1148... fornicator(s) make redundant fire someone conculiberty cabbage sauerkraut lieu lieux d'aisance (French—comfort room)—toilet (or in British slang, ... Found inside – Page 25Let us knock the British crown to FLINDERS ; let us arrange for some one or two hundred thousand British graves forthwith , and cabbage the whole boundless continent without any further procrastination . FLING , subs . ( colloquial ) . - 1. Found inside – Page 538Also , see “ stew ” and “ stewed , ” use of the term " liberty cabbage ” was ... 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Found inside – Page 42See: who's smoking. cabbage-looking. See: not so green. cable. ... In Cockney slang of C20 (ob. by 1950), a cake is a pile of currency or bank notes. Found inside – Page 171Also, occ., British: of banknotes, 'the green stuff'. cabbage, v. To purloin: orig. and mainly of tailors: from ca. 1700; soon coll. and by 1800 S.E.; ... Found insideBritish slang in the backseat. Who needed Graham Norton? “Only none of that's in the history books.” “You don't think so? Are you really such a cabbage? Found insideThese consisted of layers of cabbage leaves, turnip tops, sliced carrots, ... or in “skillygalee,” which is British slang for “thin broth” and was made by ... Found inside – Page 321British soldiers employed a different slang term , from another common German name : Fritz . World War I was also the time when Kraut , from the cabbage ... 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