cabbagehead
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A style of smokestack on a wood-burning locomotive that has a roughly spherical top on a straight narrow stack.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The larval form (caterpillar) of Crocidolomia pavonana, which is a pest that eats cabbages.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A stupid person; an idiot.
Example Sentences
- "The artichoke is elegant, but hardly sympathetic. Asparagus is nice enough, but rather apathetic. A cabbagehead is admirable, but after all is said It' s nothing really very much except a cabbagehead."
- "He had pulled them up by the roots and the cabbageheads were still on their stalks, which were like handles."
- "They are at first white, but later become yellowish; they are very small and difficult to detect, being usually deposited singly or in groups of two or three upon the outer surface of a spreading leaf, and not upon the cabbagehead."
- "Up till 1915 its engines carried tall balloon stacks rather than the round cabbagehead chimneys of a later era."
- "...and at 6:30 the train steams out over Sawgrass marsh with Emanuel Beasley, its engineer, sweating over the firebox of a cabbagehead locomotive."
- "His first experience in engine service was on the old "cabbagehead" wood-burning engines, ..."