Cabbage - [kab-ij] Chiefly British
1. a. cloth scraps that remain after a garment has been cut from a fabric and that by custom the tailor may claim.
2. slang - verb. To steal; pilfer: He cabbaged whole yards of cloth.
Cove - (kəʊv) Brit, Austral
1. old-fashioned , slang - a fellow; chap.
Cabbaging Cove: A scoundrel keen on pilfering [from the annals of not-so-distant history]!
About the Cabbaging Cove
Large twelfth-century religious illumination
Given that the Virgin Mary and Jesus were the only figures regularly given halos in pre-14th century illumination, I can only assume that the infant Christ demanded a pair of ducks from his mum.
Drei Lieder von der Magd. Priest Wernher, 1192.
omg look at Joseph’s face guess we know who’s running the show in this house