cabbaging
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cabbaging
- present participle and gerund of cabbage
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cabbaging (uncountable)
- (slang, UK) Being lazy or in a state of boredom.
- (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".