cabbaging

noun — 2 senses

noun

UK, Slang Being lazy or in a state of boredom.

Slang The stealing of offcuts of material by a tailor making a garment with a customer's fabric.

The tailor in the East [...] is made to cut out the cloth in presence of its owner, to prevent "cabbaging".1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 321 footnote:

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