neep
nounEtymology From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”). Cognate with English turnip.
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Scotland The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
- 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 (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 494:
- Derived terms
- neep lantern