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
“Improved Ferris Wheel Goat”
For fraternal organization initiation rites.
I’d hate to see the unimproved Ferris wheel goat.
Catalog of Paraphernalia, Lodge Supplies, Uniforms, Banners, Badges, etc. DeMoulin Bros. & Co. of Greenville, Illinois, 1908.
“Improved Ferris Wheel Goat”, Catalog of Paraphernalia, Lodge Supplies, Uniforms, Banners, Badges, etc. DeMoulin Bros. &...
((AL. VITA. YOU HAVE REALLY GOT TO STOP SMOKING SO MUCH. HOW DID YOU EVEN GET THIS INTO THE TENT. ))
I….have no words.