neep lantern
noun1
Scotland A lantern made from a hollowed-out turnip, traditionally used as decoration at Halloween.
- A third was a two-headed spectre, the upper one being a fiery head, that bore a suspicious resemblance to a neep lantern, and his body, or what should have been his body, was wrapped in a while sheet.1873, Thomas Watson, Homely Pearls at Random Strung, page 270:
- A neep lantern bobbing by the end of the palisade, near the Smith house, where a clutch of bairns stood in the footpath waiting for him.2003, Heather Spears, The Flourish, page 347:
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- He always finished first in the annual Hallowe'en neep lantern competition though it was meant to be done by the pupils themselves.2013, David M Addison, Confessions of a Banffshire Loon, page 288:
- Related terms
- jack-o'-lantern