neep
[ neep ]
nounScot.
a turnip.
Origin of neep
1Words Nearby neep
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How to use neep in a sentence
Rogers speaks of shipping while at Batavia "half a leaguer of Spelman's neep, or the best sort of arrack."
Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne | Robert C. LeslieIs the modern term "nip of spirit" derived from this word neep?
Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne | Robert C. LeslieThe only odds is, that we ken that we dinna ken, and the neep-seed kens nothing at all aboot it.
David Elginbrod | George MacDonald
British Dictionary definitions for neep
neep
/ (niːp) /
noun
British a dialect name for a turnip
Origin of neep
1Old English nǣp, from Latin nāpus turnip
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