neep
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”).
Noun[edit]
neep (plural neeps)
- (chiefly Scotland) The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
- 1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 494:
- Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old English nǣp, from Latin nāpus, from Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu).
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Noun[edit]
neep (plural neeps)
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References[edit]
- “nẹ̄p, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-7.
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