cabbage-head

For is it not deservedly, if disrespectfully, named a cabbage-head?

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

Deacon are the best solid cabbage-head types for resisting summer heat, and long standing.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

When a man fears to subject his faith to the crucible of controversy; when he declines to submit his ideas to the ballistae and battering-rams of cold logic, you can safely set it down that he's either a hopeless cabbage-head or a hypocritical Humbug -- that he's a fool or a fraud, is full of buncombe or bile.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

Thus did she seek to make amends for the speech about the sprouting cabbage-head, which had been weighing heavily upon her conscience.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

Closely allied to these tales is the Russian story of the old man who planted a cabbage-head in the cellar, under the floor of his cottage, and, strange to say, it grew right up to the sky.

The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869

The old man planted a cabbage-head in the cellar under the floor of his cottage; the old woman planted one in the ash-hole.

Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858

Tony with his fiddle playing to a company of dancers; and Pluck, sitting on the hearth, with his full-orbed cabbage-head, swaying to and fro, beating time with his arms and legs, and balancing in one hand a mug of flip.

Margaret 1851

ANGLICO doesn't sound very cabbage-head to me, more like USMC.

Army Rumour Service 2010

ANGLICO doesn't sound very cabbage-head to me, more like USMC.

Army Rumour Service 2010

I've always wanted to get in touch with Carey and ask for forgiveness for making his childhood miserable by dubbing him cabbage-head.

Aish Weekly Articles 2009