cabbaging

English

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Verb

cabbaging

  1. present participle and gerund of cabbage

Noun

cabbaging (uncountable)

  1. (slang, UK) Being lazy or in a state of boredom.
  2. (slang) The stealing of offcuts of material by a tailor making a garment with a customer's fabric.
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 321 footnote:
      The tailor in the East [...] is made to cut out the cloth in presence of its owner, to prevent "cabbaging".
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