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  What it means

  Literally “cabbage head.” An insult for someone who is stupid or dim-witted — “blockhead,” “cabbage head,” “numbskull.”

  Vocabulary

  • kapusta — cabbage
  • głowa — head

  Grammar note

  'Kapuściana' is the adjective from 'kapusta' — nominative feminine agreeing with 'głowa'.

  Cultural context

  Cabbage is so central to Polish cuisine that using it as an insult has a particularly local flavour — calling someone a cabbage head implies their brain is as dense and unremarkable as a head of cabbage.

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