swede

See also: Swede

A swede.

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swiːd/

• Audio (AU):

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• Homophone: Swede

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

Translations

yellow root of Brassica napus

• Belarusian: бручка f (bručka)
• Breton: irvin-saoz (br) (collective)
• Bulgarian: брюква f (brjukva)
• Czech: tuřín (cs) m
• Danish: kålroe
• Dutch: koolraap (nl) f
• Estonian: kaalikas (et)
• Finnish: lanttu (fi)
• French: rutabaga (fr) m, chou-navet (fr) m
• German: Kohlrübe (de) f, Steckrübe (de) f
• Greek: γουλί (el) n (goulí)
• Irish: svaeid m
• Italian: ravizzone (it) f
• Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan), カブカンラン (kabukanran)
• Korean: 무 (ko) (mu), 나복 (nabok)
• Macedonian: жолто цвекло n (žolto cveklo)
• Maori: tuwīti tānapu, tuwīti
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• Norman: suidiche f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kålrot m or f

  Nynorsk: kålrot f

• Polish: brukiew (pl) f
• Portuguese: rutabaga f
• Romanian: nap (ro)
• Russian: брю́ква (ru) f (brjúkva)
• Scottish Gaelic: snèap f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: репа

  Roman: repa (sh)

• Slovak: kvaka f
• Spanish: nabo sueco m
• Swedish: kålrot (sv) c, rotabagge m (dialectal, Västergötland)
• Turkish: şalgam (tr)
• Welsh: swedsen (cy) f, rwden f (North Wales)

plant

• Belarusian: бручка f (bručka)
• Breton: irvin-saoz (br) (collective)
• Bulgarian: брюква f (brjukva)
• Czech: tuřín (cs) m
• Danish: kålroe
• Dutch: koolraap (nl) f
• Finnish: lanttu (fi)
• French: rutabaga (fr) m, chou-navet (fr) m
• German: Kohlrübe (de) f
• Italian: ravizzone (it) f
• Japanese: カブハボタン (kabuhabotan)
• Korean: 무 (ko) (mu), 나복 (nabok)
• Macedonian: жолто цвекло n (žolto cveklo)
• Norman: suidiche f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kålrot m or f

  Nynorsk: kålrot f

• Polish: brukiew (pl) f
• Portuguese: rutabaga f
• Russian: брю́ква (ru) f (brjúkva)
• Scottish Gaelic: snèap f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: репа

  Roman: repa (sh)

• Slovak: kvaka
• Spanish: nabo sueco m
• Swedish: kålrot (sv) c, rotabagge m (dialectal, Västergötland)
• Turkish: şalgam (tr)

turnip — see turnip

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swiːd/
• Homophone: Swede

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, Esquire, "The Five Most Awesomely Sweded Movies"

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

   • 2014, The Guardian, "Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it?"

     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

• sewed, weeds