turmit

English

Alternative forms

• turmat, turmut, tormit, tummit

Noun

turmit (plural turmits)

1. (archaic, dialect, British) turnip
   • 1825, John Trotter Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words in Use

     TORMIT, TURMIT, a turnip.

   • 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York

     TURMAT, A turnip.

   • 1863, Joseph Philip Robson (ed.), Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or a choice collection of original songs, chiefly in the Newcastle dialect

     We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin.

   • 1857, Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English

     TORMIT, s. A turnip. North.

   • 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire

     Tur′mit. s. A turnip.

   • 1890, John Drummond Robertson & Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester

     TURMIT or TURMUT. sb. Turnip. [Common.]

   • 1918, Joseph Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village

     “I be a turmut hower,

     Vram Gloucestershire I came;