stuffed cabbage
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- noun
- /stʌft ˈkæbɪdʒ/
:
repollo relleno
- - Stuffed cabbage.
- stuffed cabbage rolls
- stuffed cabbage leaves
- make stuffed cabbage
Examples
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At the family gathering, everyone praised the tasty stuffed cabbage filled with seasoned meat.
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They serve one hell of a stuffed cabbage here, you know that?
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"Then there's something from the garden, like stuffed cabbage."
Academic text (1996) -
Kraut, fried cabbage, boiled cabbage, stuffed cabbage, slaw.
Fiction book (1997) -
♪ ♪ Stuffed cabbage is the darling Of the Laundromat ♪ ♪ The mouse with the overbite ♪ ♪ Explained How the rabbits were ensnared
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For dinner, we enjoyed delicious stuffed cabbage topped with a rich tomato sauce.
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My grandmother taught me how to prepare stuffed cabbage using her special recipe.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a cabbage that has been filled with meat or other fillings' is directly and transparently derivable from 'stuff' (to fill) plus 'cabbage', with 'stuffed' functioning as a past-participial adjective indicating it has been filled. This compositional pattern (e.g., 'stuffed peppers') is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English word-formation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the dish meaning.
Etymology
Stuffed cabbage is named for the simple cooking image: cooks take cabbage leaves and fill them with meat or rice, then roll them up like little parcels. The cabbage is literally stuffed, so the name came to mean this 'dish' today.