cabbaging

But if he wishes to know whether the introduction of the sentence from Tacitus into a poetical tale should be called "cabbaging," the reply will properly be, No. The poet expected that the well-known figure, which he had thus thrown into verse, would be immediately recognised by every literary reader, and that the recognition would give pleasure.

Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 Various

It could just be that I'm spending too much time "cabbaging about" on the couch as the British would say.

How I love you, mon petit chou Sarah Lenz 2008

It could just be that I'm spending too much time "cabbaging about" on the couch as the British would say.

Archive 2008-09-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

East, as in Southern Europe, is made to cut out the cloth in presence of its owner, to prevent “cabbaging.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

We are told how in the beginning it came to pass that like cabbaging

Finnegans Wake 2006

And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading-room cabbaging sermons for Sunday!

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?"

Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Various

And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, care-worn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading-room cabbaging sermons for Sunday.

Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells. 1910

And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading-room cabbaging sermons for Sunday!

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

And what a touching sight it is of a Saturday afternoon to see the poor, careworn clergymen gathered together in that vast reading-room cabbaging sermons for Sunday!

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899