subs. phr. (old).—A cuckold [CUCKOO, q.v.]. Also SUMMER-CABBAGE = a woman [cf. supra and CABBAGE (or GREENS) = copulation].
1560. The Schole-house of Women, 317 [HAZLITT, Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England (1866), IV. 117].
| And all to the end some other knaue | |
| Shall dub her husband a SUMMER BIRD. |
1673. The Sackful of News. So the poore man was cruelly beaten, and made a SUMMERS BIRD nevertheless.
