swede

See also: Swede

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swiːd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iːd
• Homophone: Swede

Etymology 1

A swede.

From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s.

Noun

swede (plural swedes)

1. (chiefly British) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
2. The plant from which this is obtained.
3. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip.
4. (UK, slang) The head.
   • 2005, The Spectator, volume 299, page 49:

     Gotta be so careful nowadays; local copper's no problem but the cow from the council done me 'cos this almost brained a punter when it fell on his swede.

Synonyms

• (plant): rutabaga (US, Canada)
• (vegetable): rutabaga (US, Canada), neep (Scotland), yellow turnip (US), winter turnip

Derived terms

• swede midge

 

Translations

yellow root of Brassica napus — see rutabaga

plant — see rutabaga

turnip — see turnip

slang: head

• Finnish: lanttu (fi)

Etymology 2

Coined by Michel Gondry in the film Be Kind Rewind, from the claim that films produced in this way were imported from Sweden.

Verb

swede (third-person singular simple present swedes, present participle sweding, simple past and past participle sweded)

1. To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques.
   • 2008, “The Five Most Awesomely Sweded Movies”, in Esquire:

     Chances are you've sweded something before without even knowing it.

   • 2014, The Guardian, Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it?‎^[1]:

     Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones and John Rambo are this era's King Arthur, Beowulf and Robin Hood – and sweding represents a playful and heartfelt engagement with their myths.

Anagrams

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