cabbage, n.⁶ — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cabbage n.⁶

1. the vagina; one of a number of terms that equates the vagina with a vegetable.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1924		Maggie Jones [song title] Anybody Here Wants to Try My Cabbage.
1935		Lil Johnson ‘Anybody Here Want to Buy My Cabbage’ 🎵 Now, I’ve got good cabbage, smelling mighty sweet.
1938		Jellyroll Morton ‘Low Down Blues’ 🎵 I got a sweet woman; she lives right back of the jail. / She’s got a sign on her window, ‘Good Cabbage for sale’.
1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1982		Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 131: Cabbage, cake, canoe, cock, poontang from putain.
2000		M. Manning Get Your Cock Out 72: You’d think that now her cabbage had been turned inside out by little Lourdes and her paps shrivelled up into lactating paper bags she’d lay off all this soft focus sex rubbish.

2. a woman.

1947		B. Rose 8 May [synd. col.] The little cabbage spoke up for her generation [W&F].
1963		in T.I. Rubin Sweet Daddy 25: I like cabbage.
1997		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz 87 Dec. n.p.: cabbage n. Girls; totty (qv). As in ‘I’m looking forward to going out this evening. I hope to get some cabbage’.

boil someone’s cabbage (v.)

(US) of a man, to have sexual intercourse.

1928

Bessie Smith ‘Empty Bed Blues Pt 2’ 🎵 He boiled my first cabbage and he made it awful hot / When he put in the bacon it overflowed the pot.

have a bit of summer cabbage (v.)

to have sexual intercourse.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1985		R.G. Barrett You Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids (1989) 182: Out after a bit of the old summer cabbage, are you?

take a turn among the cabbages (v.) (also be amongst the cabbages)

to have sexual intercourse.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 233: Remuer. To copulate; ‘to be amongst the cabbages’.
1980		Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 197: The terms used for copulating […] are not really euphemistic because it is implicit that no ambiguity could possibly result and, unlike euphemisms, they are, or used to be, avoided in polite, mixed company. Related to this group are the allusive […] to take a turn among the cabbages [...] among the parsley.