Meaning and background
The story behind Cabbage
Cabbage is a vegetable-word choice with a deliberately everyday feel. The dictionary describes the familiar leafy garden plant with a dense head, and also records secondary slang and tailoring senses. If your inspiration is the vegetable, that is the clearest meaning to state rather than borrowing a more glamorous interpretation. For a dog, the unexpected food association may be the joke. The written ending age has a short ij sound in the reference reading, which is useful when someone sees the name before hearing it.
- Meaning
- English name for a leafy brassica vegetable, especially the dense-headed garden form. Source
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About Cabbage
Recorded as a dog’s name
Cabbage appears in 3 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/kæbədʒ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
Other dictionary readings and notation
/kæbədʒ/ · primary stress on syllable 1K AE1 B AH0 JH
/kæbɪdʒ/ · primary stress on syllable 1K AE1 B IH0 JH
These are US dictionary readings. Personal, regional and other language pronunciations may differ.
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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