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▪ I. neep|niːp|
Forms: 1 nǽp, 1, 4–5 nep, 4–7 nepe, 5–6 neppe, Sc. neip, 5– neep, (9 neap).
[OE. nǽp, ad. L. nāpus nape n.3 ON. næpa (still in mod. Norw. and Icel.) was prob. adopted from English.]
1. A turnip. Also attrib.
The usual name in all Sc. dialects, and current in Northumberland and some southern counties.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) N 40 Napis, naep. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 214 Healde hine þonne..wiþ pisan, & beana, & næpas. 13..S.E. Leg. (MS. Bodl. 779) in Herrig Archiv LXXXII. 335/68 Al his lyf to penaunce þis goodman haþ I-dyȝt; xv. nepus he et ech day. c1340Nominale (Skeat) 236 Man in the ȝerde pullith nepus. c1420Pallad. on Husb. ix. 29 Now rape and neep in places drie is sowe. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. x. (Fox & Wolf) xxiv, Quhite as ane neip, and round als as ane seill. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 171 Porettis, tame nepis, and parcely, and other erbis off medecyn. 1544T. Phaer Regim. Life (1553) I iv, Nepes also and rapes and radyshe..maye bee well inoughe permitted. 1674Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Nepe, a turnip or navew. The word is still retein'd in Herefordshire. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 167 As round as a Neep come todlen hame. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 207 Juicy neeps that melt in the mooth o' their ain accord. 1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold xviii, The laddies paraded the village with neep-lanterns. 1887P. McNeill Blawearie 112 You might as well send a hungry stirk into a field among neeps, and expect it not to eat.
†2. wild neep, (see quots. and nep n.2). Also English neep (?). Obs.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 135 Napa siluatica, sperewyrt, vel wilde næp. Ibid. 136 Diptamnus, vel bibulcos, wilde næp. c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 12 To wensealfe nim..hræmnes fot, ængliscne næp & finul. a1387Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.) 13 Brionia, wilde nepe. c1440Promp. Parv. 353/1 Nepe, herbe, coloquintida, cucurbita.
▪ II. neep, neer
obs. forms of neap, near. |