subs. (Australian).—Old for what are now called LARRIKINS (q.v.). Derived from the low-crowned cabbage-palm hat affected by this section of Australian society.] CABBAGITES was an alternative.
18[?]. LIEUT-COL. MUNDAY, Our Antipodes. Loafers known as the CABBAGE-TREE MOB, a class whom, in the spirit of the ancient tyrant, one might excusably wish had but one nose in order to make it a bloody one. Ibid. Unaware of the propensities of the CABBAGITES, he was by them furiously assailed.
