Cabbage Night
English
Etymology
From the use of rotten cabbages in pranks on this night. Also because in some towns they used to pile all the left over cabbage from the fields and light a bonfire on the night before Halloween.
Proper noun
Cabbage Night (plural Cabbage Nights)
- (around New York City, Northern New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and especially upstate New York and Vermont) 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.
Synonyms
- see list in Mischief Night
References
- The Dialect Survey