# Cabbage Night

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. 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.

## Etymology
* Perhaps from the use of rotten cabbages in pranks on this night.
* Perhaps because some towns used to pile all the left-over cabbage from the fields and light a bonfire on the night before Halloween.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cabbage-night