neep
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English nepe, from Old English næp, from Latin napus.
Cognate to turnip.
Noun [edit]
neep (plural neeps)
- (chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga), called "turnip" in Scotland.
- 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 494:
- Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […].
- 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 494:
