cabbaging

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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".