Pronounced: ih-DAS-ih-tee, noun
Notes: I could not break down this word so as to guess the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word cabbage means “to take or appropriate without right; steal; filch”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
It turns out that our word, although spelled the same as the leafy vegetable, it is not related to it. Originally, our word referred to a practice of tailors to keep the pieces of cloth left over after creating a garment for a client. It is thought that the word was originally “carbage”, which may have been a variant of “garbage”. Another theory is that the word came from the Middle French word cabas (cheating; theft).
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