English Explanatory Dictionary

Cabbage Night

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A particular night, commonly the night of the 30th to the 31st of October, during which young people play pranks and do mischief in their neighborhoods.

Word forms

Cabbage Night Cabbage Nights

Etymology

* Perhaps from the use of rotten cabbages in pranks on this night. * Perhaps because some towns used to pile all the left-over cabbage from the fields and light a bonfire on the night before Halloween.

Synonyms

list in Mischief Night
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