neep

Etymology

From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”). Cognate with English turnip.

noun

  1. (chiefly 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

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