neepn.

Brit.

/niːp/, U.S.

/nip/, Scottish English

/nip/, Irish English

/niːp/

Forms: early Old English naep, Old English–early Middle English næp, Old English (non-West Saxon)–1600s 1800s (1900s– English regional (northern)) nep, early Middle English nap, Middle English–1500s neppe, Middle English–1600s nepe, Middle English– neep, 1500s neape, 1600s nippe, 1900s– nepe (English regional), 1900s– nip (English regional (Suffolk)), 1900s– nype (Welsh English (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 nep, pre-1700 nepe, pre-1700 nipe, pre-1700 1700s–1800s nip, pre-1700 1700s– neep, pre-1700 1700s– neip, 1800s– neap; Irish English 1800s neape (Wexford), 1800s– neap, 1900s– neep.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nāpus.

Etymology: < classical Latin nāpus nape n.³Old Icelandic næpa , Norwegian nepe are probably < Old English. In quot. 1791 at sense 1b perhaps shortened < parsnip n.

Now regional (chiefly Scottish).

a. A turnip; (also, in later Scottish use) a swede. Also: a turnip plant or swede plant.In Old English, perhaps also applied to rape, Brassica napus.The usual name in all Scottish dialects and current in Ulster and Northumberland, it is also recorded by Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) in Cornwall, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Herefordshire, north Wales, and Leinster.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > turnip

neepeOE

rapea1398

rave?1440

turnip1539

knoll1669

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip

neepeOE

rave?1440

turnip1539

rape1562

knoll1669

eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 81/2 Napis, naep.

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxiv. 214 Healde hine þonne..wiþ pisan & beana, & næpas.

OE Lacnunga (2001) I. xxx. 18 To wensealfe: nim elenan & rædic & cyrfillan & hræmnes fot, ængliscne næp & finul..& cnuca tosomne.

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 112 Rapa næp.

a1200 ( Laud Plant Gloss. 52 Napis .i. nep, uel meep.

c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 9* M[an]. in the ȝerde pullith nepus.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 248^v It [sc. Sinapis] is liche to an nepe in leues.

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ix. 29 (MED) Nowe rape and neep [L. napus] in places drie is sowe.

a1450 MS Bodl. 779 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 335 Al his lif to penaunce þis goodman haþ I-dyȝt: xv nepus he et echday.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2395 in Poems (1981) 89 Quhyte as ane neip and round als as ane seill.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxv/2 Porettis tame nepis and parcely, and other erbis off medecyn.

1670 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 3) Nepe, a turnip or navew. The word is still retein'd in Herefordshire.

1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 167 As round as a Neep come todlen hame.

1776 E. Topham Lett. from Edinb. 229 A plate of small turnips, which they call ‘Neeps’.

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 619 Juicy neeps, that melt in the mooth o' their ain accord.

1896 L. Proudlock Borderland Maze 321 Neeps are rotting in the fields.

1917 Kelso Chron. 17 Aug. 2 The moisture is suiting the ‘neep’ family, and already very large bulbs are showing.

1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain v. 104 She will bash the boat like a bowl of neeps as she sounds.

1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 27/1 An enjoyable meal of haggis, neeps and tatties was served by Lexie Mann.

b. Scottish and Irish English (southern). A parsnip. Cf. mype n.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > parsnip

skirret1338

parsnipc1390

neep1789

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > parsnip

skirret1338

parsnipc1390

mype1597

neep1789

1789 C. Vallancey Vocab. Lang. Forth & Bargie in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1788 2 Antiquities 32 Neapess, parsnips.

1791 Mrs. Frazer Pract. of Cookery (1800) 121 To stew Parsnips..when the cream is warm, put in the nips.

a1827 J. Poole Gloss. Old Dial. Forth & Bargy (1867) Neape, a parsnip.

1977 D. Ó Muirithe Eng. Lang. in Ireland 55 [Wexford] A parsnip is a neape.

†2. More fully wild neep. Any of several wild plants used medicinally; spec. white bryony, Bryonia dioica. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bryony

neepOE

hound's-berrya1300

smear-nepa1400

white vine?a1425

psilothre?1440

black vine1552

bryony1552

tetter-berry1597

Mary's seal1600

psilothrum1601

wild vine1607

lady's seal1617

black bryony1626

Our Lady's signet1640

poison-withe1693

felon-berrya1715

cow-bind1820

bryony-vine1842

oxberry1859

wood-vine1861

mandrake1886

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 111 Nap siluatica, sperewyrt, uel wilde næp.

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 118 Diptamnus, wilde næp uel Bibulcos.

a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 5 Vitis alba, brionia idem. gall. navet, angl. wildnep.

a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 13 Brionia, wilde nepe.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 353 Nepe, herbe, coloquintida, cucurbita.

1545 T. Raynald tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. sig. R.ii Take..of wyld neppe dried the leues.

1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. I1 Bryonie or wylde neape, bryonia.

1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xlv. 613 Some called it Bryonia, bryony or wild nep.

1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. i. 32 The root of the wild Nep, which is like Woodbine.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Alf-Pape, a white Vine, or Nippe.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 783/1 Nep, wild, Bryonia dioica.

3. Scottish. A watch; spec. a watch in a case, a turnip watch. Sc. National Dict. (1965) records the sense in general Scottish use in 1963.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch

German watch1611

larum watch1619

clock-watch1625

minute watch1660

pendulum watch1664

watch1666

alarm watch1669

finger watch1679

string-watch1686

scout1688

balance-watch1690

hour-watch1697

warming-pan1699

minute pendulum watch1705

jewel watch1711

suit1718

repeater1725

Tompion1727

pendulum spring1728

second-watch1755

Geneva watch1756

cylinder-watch1765

watch-paper1777

ring watch1788

verge watch1792

watch lamp1823

hack1827

bull's-eye1833

vertical watch1838

quarter-repeater1840

turnip1840

hunting-watch1843

minute repeater1843

hunter1851

job watch1851

Geneva1852

watch-lining1856

touch watch1860

musical watch1864

lever1865

neep1866

verge1871

independent seconds watch1875

stem-winder1875

demi-hunter1884

fob-watch1884

three-quarter plate1884

wrist-watch1897

turnip-watch1898

sedan-chair watch1904

Rolex1922

Tank watch1923

strap watch1926

chatelaine watch1936

sedan clock1950

quartz watch1969

pulsar1970

1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 117 Neep,..(3) A watch.

1895 J. Tweeddale Moff xxii. 210 ‘It maun be shortly sin if he dis,’ said Wullie Cuddy, consulting his ‘neep’.

1923 R. L. Cassie Heart or Heid 18 That great neep o' a watch o' yours wunna keep time.

Compounds

neep brose n. Scottish and Irish English (northern) brose made with the liquid in which turnips or swedes have been boiled.

ΚΠ

1887 A. G. Wilken Peter Laing 50 A great notion for neep brose.

1959 C. Gibson Folk-lore Tayside 33 Almost on a par with kale-brose were neep-brose, beef-brose—and just plain brose.

neep land n. Scottish (now Orkney and Shetland) ground prepared or used for growing turnips or swedes.

ΚΠ

1861 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Neep n.¹ I was at Newmill yesterday and got the Dung and new grass Valued and plowing of neep land is setteled.

1956 C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 9 Mither's washan and Ded's i' the neep lan'.

neep lantern n. Scottish = turnip-lantern n. at turnip n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold xviii The laddies paraded the village with neep-lanterns.

1937 St. Andrews Citizen 1 May 3 They then got a turnip, hollowed it out in the usual manner when making a ‘neep lantern’, and gave the turnip the form of a skull.

1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin xvii. 163 Older children came to ring the craft-house door, swinging leering neap lanterns.

neep-seed n. (a) the seed of the neep; (b) Scottish (north-eastern), the time for sowing neeps.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > seed or root

neep-seedeOE

turnip1578

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. i. 24 Genim eft senepes sædes dæl & næpsædes & cersan sædes.

?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 7 Nim senepsæd and næpsæd and meng eced and cned hyt mid þam ecede.

1863 G. Macdonald David Elginbrod II. iv We ken no more..than that neep-seed there kens what a neep is.

1916 G. Abel Wylins 66 The neepseed deen, me an' my chums an' pals Wid shim a bit, or dander to the walls.

neep-shaw n. Scottish and English regional (Northumberland) a turnip top.

ΚΠ

1872 J. Armstrong Another Sang in R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (1893–4) at Neep-shaw A neep-shaw, or docken, or aucht that is green.

1965 Sc. National Dict. at Neep n.¹ Neep shaw, a turnip-top.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	neep
释义	neepn. Brit. /niːp/, U.S. /nip/, Scottish English /nip/, Irish English /niːp/ Forms: early Old English naep, Old English–early Middle English næp, Old English (non-West Saxon)–1600s 1800s (1900s– English regional (northern)) nep, early Middle English nap, Middle English–1500s neppe, Middle English–1600s nepe, Middle English– neep, 1500s neape, 1600s nippe, 1900s– nepe (English regional), 1900s– nip (English regional (Suffolk)), 1900s– nype (Welsh English (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 nep, pre-1700 nepe, pre-1700 nipe, pre-1700 1700s–1800s nip, pre-1700 1700s– neep, pre-1700 1700s– neip, 1800s– neap; Irish English 1800s neape (Wexford), 1800s– neap, 1900s– neep. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nāpus. Etymology: < classical Latin nāpus nape n.³Old Icelandic næpa , Norwegian nepe are probably < Old English. In quot. 1791 at sense 1b perhaps shortened < parsnip n. Now regional (chiefly Scottish). 1. a. A turnip; (also, in later Scottish use) a swede. Also: a turnip plant or swede plant.In Old English, perhaps also applied to rape, Brassica napus.The usual name in all Scottish dialects and current in Ulster and Northumberland, it is also recorded by Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) in Cornwall, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Herefordshire, north Wales, and Leinster. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > turnip neepeOE rapea1398 rave?1440 turnip1539 knoll1669 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip neepeOE rave?1440 turnip1539 rape1562 knoll1669 eOE Corpus Gloss. (1890) 81/2 Napis, naep. eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xxiv. 214 Healde hine þonne..wiþ pisan & beana, & næpas. OE Lacnunga (2001) I. xxx. 18 To wensealfe: nim elenan & rædic & cyrfillan & hræmnes fot, ængliscne næp & finul..& cnuca tosomne. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 112 Rapa næp. a1200 ( Laud Plant Gloss. 52 Napis .i. nep, uel meep. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 9* M[an]. in the ȝerde pullith nepus. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 248^v It [sc. Sinapis] is liche to an nepe in leues. tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) ix. 29 (MED) Nowe rape and neep [L. napus] in places drie is sowe. a1450 MS Bodl. 779 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1889) 82 335 Al his lif to penaunce þis goodman haþ I-dyȝt: xv nepus he et echday. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2395 in Poems (1981) 89 Quhyte as ane neip and round als as ane seill. c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxv/2 Porettis tame nepis and parcely, and other erbis off medecyn. 1670 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 3) Nepe, a turnip or navew. The word is still retein'd in Herefordshire. 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 167 As round as a Neep come todlen hame. 1776 E. Topham Lett. from Edinb. 229 A plate of small turnips, which they call ‘Neeps’. 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 619 Juicy neeps, that melt in the mooth o' their ain accord. 1896 L. Proudlock Borderland Maze 321 Neeps are rotting in the fields. 1917 Kelso Chron. 17 Aug. 2 The moisture is suiting the ‘neep’ family, and already very large bulbs are showing. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain v. 104 She will bash the boat like a bowl of neeps as she sounds. 1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 27/1 An enjoyable meal of haggis, neeps and tatties was served by Lexie Mann. b. Scottish and Irish English (southern). A parsnip. Cf. mype n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > parsnip skirret1338 parsnipc1390 neep1789 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > parsnip skirret1338 parsnipc1390 mype1597 neep1789 1789 C. Vallancey Vocab. Lang. Forth & Bargie in Trans. Royal Irish Acad. 1788 2 Antiquities 32 Neapess, parsnips. 1791 Mrs. Frazer Pract. of Cookery (1800) 121 To stew Parsnips..when the cream is warm, put in the nips. a1827 J. Poole Gloss. Old Dial. Forth & Bargy (1867) Neape, a parsnip. 1977 D. Ó Muirithe Eng. Lang. in Ireland 55 [Wexford] A parsnip is a neape. †2. More fully wild neep. Any of several wild plants used medicinally; spec. white bryony, Bryonia dioica. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bryony neepOE hound's-berrya1300 smear-nepa1400 white vine?a1425 psilothre?1440 black vine1552 bryony1552 tetter-berry1597 Mary's seal1600 psilothrum1601 wild vine1607 lady's seal1617 black bryony1626 Our Lady's signet1640 poison-withe1693 felon-berrya1715 cow-bind1820 bryony-vine1842 oxberry1859 wood-vine1861 mandrake1886 OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 111 Nap siluatica, sperewyrt, uel wilde næp. OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 118 Diptamnus, wilde næp uel Bibulcos. a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 5 Vitis alba, brionia idem. gall. navet, angl. wildnep. a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 13 Brionia, wilde nepe. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 353 Nepe, herbe, coloquintida, cucurbita. 1545 T. Raynald tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde ii. sig. R.ii Take..of wyld neppe dried the leues. 1556 J. Withals Short Dict. (new ed.) sig. I1 Bryonie or wylde neape, bryonia. 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xlv. 613 Some called it Bryonia, bryony or wild nep. 1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. i. 32 The root of the wild Nep, which is like Woodbine. 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Alf-Pape, a white Vine, or Nippe. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 783/1 Nep, wild, Bryonia dioica. 3. Scottish. A watch; spec. a watch in a case, a turnip watch. Sc. National Dict. (1965) records the sense in general Scottish use in 1963. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] > particular types of watch German watch1611 larum watch1619 clock-watch1625 minute watch1660 pendulum watch1664 watch1666 alarm watch1669 finger watch1679 string-watch1686 scout1688 balance-watch1690 hour-watch1697 warming-pan1699 minute pendulum watch1705 jewel watch1711 suit1718 repeater1725 Tompion1727 pendulum spring1728 second-watch1755 Geneva watch1756 cylinder-watch1765 watch-paper1777 ring watch1788 verge watch1792 watch lamp1823 hack1827 bull's-eye1833 vertical watch1838 quarter-repeater1840 turnip1840 hunting-watch1843 minute repeater1843 hunter1851 job watch1851 Geneva1852 watch-lining1856 touch watch1860 musical watch1864 lever1865 neep1866 verge1871 independent seconds watch1875 stem-winder1875 demi-hunter1884 fob-watch1884 three-quarter plate1884 wrist-watch1897 turnip-watch1898 sedan-chair watch1904 Rolex1922 Tank watch1923 strap watch1926 chatelaine watch1936 sedan clock1950 quartz watch1969 pulsar1970 1866 W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire (Philol. Soc.) 117 Neep,..(3) A watch. 1895 J. Tweeddale Moff xxii. 210 ‘It maun be shortly sin if he dis,’ said Wullie Cuddy, consulting his ‘neep’. 1923 R. L. Cassie Heart or Heid 18 That great neep o' a watch o' yours wunna keep time. Compounds neep brose n. Scottish and Irish English (northern) brose made with the liquid in which turnips or swedes have been boiled. ΚΠ 1887 A. G. Wilken Peter Laing 50 A great notion for neep brose. 1959 C. Gibson Folk-lore Tayside 33 Almost on a par with kale-brose were neep-brose, beef-brose—and just plain brose. neep land n. Scottish (now Orkney and Shetland) ground prepared or used for growing turnips or swedes. ΚΠ 1861 in Sc. National Dict. (1965) at Neep n.¹ I was at Newmill yesterday and got the Dung and new grass Valued and plowing of neep land is setteled. 1956 C. M. Costie Benjie's Bodle 9 Mither's washan and Ded's i' the neep lan'. neep lantern n. Scottish = turnip-lantern n. at turnip n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1871 C. Gibbon For Lack of Gold xviii The laddies paraded the village with neep-lanterns. 1937 St. Andrews Citizen 1 May 3 They then got a turnip, hollowed it out in the usual manner when making a ‘neep lantern’, and gave the turnip the form of a skull. 1980 D. K. Cameron Willie Gavin xvii. 163 Older children came to ring the craft-house door, swinging leering neap lanterns. neep-seed n. (a) the seed of the neep; (b) Scottish (north-eastern), the time for sowing neeps. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > seed or root neep-seedeOE turnip1578 eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. i. 24 Genim eft senepes sædes dæl & næpsædes & cersan sædes. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 7 Nim senepsæd and næpsæd and meng eced and cned hyt mid þam ecede. 1863 G. Macdonald David Elginbrod II. iv We ken no more..than that neep-seed there kens what a neep is. 1916 G. Abel Wylins 66 The neepseed deen, me an' my chums an' pals Wid shim a bit, or dander to the walls. neep-shaw n. Scottish and English regional (Northumberland) a turnip top. ΚΠ 1872 J. Armstrong Another Sang in R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (1893–4) at Neep-shaw A neep-shaw, or docken, or aucht that is green. 1965 Sc. National Dict. at Neep n.¹ Neep shaw, a turnip-top. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOE
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