turnipn.
/ˈtəːnɪp/, U.S. /ˈtərnəp/ 1. † b. spec. The spheroidal root itself. Obsolete. rare.
a. The fleshy, globular or spheroidal root of a biennial cruciferous plant, Brassica Rapa, var. depressa, having toothed, somewhat hairy leaves, and yellow flowers, cultivated from ancient times as a culinary vegetable, and for feeding sheep and cattle; also, the plant itself, of which the young shoots ( turnip-tops) are frequently boiled as greens.
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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
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 25 Turnepes beinge welle boyled in water, and after with fatte fleshe, norysheth moche.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 113 The great round rape, called commonly a turnepe, groweth in very great plenty in all Germany.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xviii. xiii. 571 The best Husbandmen..give order, That the ground for Turneps [L. napum] should have five tilthes.
1629 J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole 508 There are diuers sorts of Turneps, as white, yellow, and red.
1672 Court-bk. Barony of Urie (1892) 92 Some people..did steall furth thereof turnepes and carrottis and uther rootis.
1759 in Q. Jrnl. Econ. (1907) Nov. 78 In case of Wet Weather while the Sheep are at turneps they are to have the Liberty of Great Oxenden.
1764 in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 63 Agreed at vestry to sow Sandhill turnoops this next year.
1782 Barker in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 72 282 A wet week in the middle did not greatly hurt the hay, and was very good for the turnips.
1839 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 168 I brought home 18 prime partridges and I lost another in the high turnips.
1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 315 We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin.
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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
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxxiii. 593 There is another kinde of Turnep or Rape... His rootes or Turneppes are not white but red.
1765 J. W. Baker in Museum Rusticum V. 265 When the sheep have eaten all the leaves, and begin to eat the butts or turneps of this plant [turnip-cabbage], they will not rot as turnips do, when wounded.
c. apparently = turnip-lantern n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > made from a turnip, pumpkin, or beet
turnip1766
pumpkin lantern1834
Jack-o'-lantern1837
turnip-lantern1844
punkie1931
1766 Lady M. Coke Jrnl. 30 Sept. (1889) I. 64 I told Lucy unless She cou'd produce more light I must go. She said She wou'd send for two turnips; 'twas all She cou'd do.
2.
a. Applied, usually with defining word, to other species or varieties of Brassica; as cabbage-turnip n. or Hungarian turnip n. the turnip-rooted Cabbage or Kohlrabi (B. oleracea gongylodes). French turnip n. (a) the rape, B. Napus or B. campestris; (b) a variety of B. Napus, extensively cultivated in France and Germany, and much used as a flavouring for soups. Swedish turnip n. B. campestris Rutabaga. teltow turnip n. = French turnip n. (b). wild turnip n. the rape; see also 2b. yellow turnip n. a yellow variety of the common turnip.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for sheep
turnip1548
wild turnip1597
broouage1610
French turnip1731–3
brush-turnip1799
break1805
old man saltbush1866
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun] > cabbage > kohl-rabi
cabbage-turnip1548
turnip-cabbage1765
kohlrabi1808
kohl1880
kale-turnip1890
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > types of
rapea1398
round rape1559
nape1562
round turnip1599
yellow turnip1707
Indian turnip1735
tankard-turnip1744
orange jelly1769
white loaf1775
rutabaga1789
Swedish turnipc1791
Swedish turnipc1791
red-top1805
white top1807
Swede1812
yellow-top1838
ox-heart1846
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > turnip > types of
navew1527
navet1530
round rape1559
nape1562
round turnip1599
French turnip1731–3
Indian turnip1735
orange jelly1769
rutabaga1789
Swedish turnipc1791
Swede1812
teltow turnip1866
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. E.vj Napus... I haue hearde some cal it in englishe a turnepe, and other some a naued or a nauet.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 112v Rapum..is called in English of them of the South countre, turnepe, of other countre men a rape.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 179 There be three sorts of wilde Turneps.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 179 Wilde Turneps or Rapes, haue long, broad, and rough leaues like those of Turneps.
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 180 Wilde Turneps or Rapes, do grow of themselues in fallow fields.
1600 R. Hakluyt tr. in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 234 Wee..sowed it part with Naueaus or small Turneps.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 157 Yellow Turneps..are commonly sown in Gardens, but are of very great advantage to be sown in Fields, not only for the use of the Kitchen, but for Food for Cattle in Winter.
1731–3 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) Napus, the Navew or French Turnip.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 330 Turnep, French, Brassica.
c1791 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 761/1 The ruta baga, or Swedish turnip, is a plant from which great expectations have been formed.
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xv. 261 The most common [turneps] are the white sorts; but the yellow and red are worthy of trial.
1796 C. Marshall Gardening (1813) xv. 262 The cabbage turnep is of two kinds: one apples above ground, and the other in it.
1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 67 B. napus is the..Rape or Cole~seed... There is a variety of this, called by the French Chou Navette, and by us French Turnip (B. n. esculenta), which is employed in flavouring all foreign soups.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 167/2 The Teltow Turnip, or ‘Navet de Berlin petit’ of the French (B. Napus var.), is very different from any of our cultivated varieties of Turnip, its root being long and spindle-shaped.
b. Applied to plants of other genera having roots or tubers like those of the turnip, as Indian turnip, lion's turnip, prairie turnip: see these words; also St. Anthony's turnip, the bulbous buttercup, Ranunculus bulbosus; wild turnip = Indian turnip (in both uses).
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > fodder for sheep
turnip1548
wild turnip1597
broouage1610
French turnip1731–3
brush-turnip1799
break1805
old man saltbush1866
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > turnip > turnip plant > plants resembling
turnip1597
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 182 Lyons Turnep [Leontopetalon] is of force to digest.
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 94 Psoralea esculenta,..the Indian Turnip,..used as food by the aborigines.
1856 A. Gray Man. Bot. Northern U.S. (1860) 427 Arisæma triphyllum, Indian Turnip.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 176/1 B[ryonia] dioica, the Common Bryony... The root is used..as a purgative; but it is unsafe from its uncertain and sometimes violent action, whence the French call it Devil's-turnip.
1894 Gibson in Harper's Mag. 565 The wild arum of Great Britain..the foreign counterpart of our well known jack-in-the-pulpit, or Indian turnip.
3.
a. In slang phrases, sometimes with pun on turn-up. See quots.
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a1596 Sir T. More (Malone Soc.) ii. ii Come, come; wele tickle ther turnips, wele butter ther boxes. Shall strangers rule the roste?
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 221 Turnips, to give any body turnips signifies to turn him or her up, and the party so turned up, is said to have knap'd turnips.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 27 This gourd forms a favourite metaphor in common parlance: ‘le ha dado Calabazas’, she has refused him; it is the ‘giving cold turnips’ of Suffolk.
b. Slang term for an old-fashioned thick silver watch.
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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
1840 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 59 An old turnip of a watch..on the table beside her.
1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green vi. 50 His mechanical turnip shewed him that he had no time to lose.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xv. 234 My turnip says it's eight o'clock now.
c. Humorously applied to a person: cf. turnip-head n., turnip-headed adj. at Compounds 1g.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
asseOE
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dasiberd14..
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doddypoll1401
dastardc1440
dotterel1440
dullardc1440
wantwit1449
jobardc1475
nollc1475
assheada1500
mulea1500
dull-pate15..
peak1509
dulbert?a1513
doddy-patec1525
noddypolla1529
hammer-head1532
dull-head?1534
capon1542
dolt1543
blockhead1549
cod's head1549
mome1550
grout-head1551
gander1553
skit-brains?1553
blocka1556
calfa1556
tomfool1565
dunce1567
druggard1569
cobble1570
dummel1570
Essex calf1573
jolthead1573
hardhead1576
beetle-head1577
dor-head1577
groutnoll1578
grosshead1580
thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
jobbernowl1592
beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
oatmeal-groat1594
loggerhead1595
block-pate1598
cittern-head1598
noddypoop1598
dorbellist1599
numps1599
dor1601
stump1602
ram-head1605
look-like-a-goose1606
ruff1606
clod1607
turf1607
asinego1609
clot-poll1609
doddiea1611
druggle1611
duncecomb1612
ox-head1613
clod-polla1616
dulman1615
jolterhead1620
bullhead1624
dunderwhelpa1625
dunderhead1630
macaroona1631
clod-patea1635
clota1637
dildo1638
clot-pate1640
stupid1640
clod-head1644
stub1644
simpletonian1652
bottle-head1654
Bœotiana1657
vappe1657
lackwit1668
cudden1673
plant-animal1673
dolt-head1679
cabbage head1682
put1688
a piece of wood1691
ouphe1694
dunderpate1697
numbskull1697
leather-head1699
nocky1699
Tom Cony1699
mopus1700
bluff-head1703
clod skull1707
dunny1709
dowf1722
stupe1722
gamphrel1729
gobbin?1746
duncehead1749
half-wit1755
thick-skull1755
jackass1756
woollen-head1756
numbhead1757
beef-head1775
granny1776
stupid-head1792
stunpolla1794
timber-head1794
wether heada1796
dummy1796
noghead1800
staumrel1802
muttonhead1803
num1807
dummkopf1809
tumphya1813
cod's head and shoulders1820
stoopid1823
thick-head1824
gype1825
stob1825
stookiea1828
woodenhead1831
ning-nong1832
log-head1834
fat-head1835
dunderheadism1836
turnip1837
mudhead1838
donkey1840
stupex1843
cabbage1844
morepork1845
lubber-head1847
slowpoke1847
stupiditarian1850
pudding-head1851
cod's head and shoulders1852
putty head1853
moke1855
mullet-head1855
pothead1855
mug1857
thick1857
boodle1862
meathead1863
missing link1863
half-baked1866
lunk1867
turnip-head1869
rummy1872
pumpkin-head1876
tattie1879
chump1883
dully1883
cretin1884
lunkhead1884
mopstick1886
dumbhead1887
peanut head1891
pie-face1891
doughbakea1895
butt-head1896
pinhead1896
cheesehead1900
nyamps1900
box head1902
bonehead1903
chickenhead1903
thickwit1904
cluck1906
boob1907
John1908
mooch1910
nitwit1910
dikkop1913
goop1914
goofus1916
rumdum1916
bone dome1917
moron1917
oik1917
jabroni1919
dumb-bell1920
knob1920
goon1921
dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
cockhead1972
nully1973
thicko1976
wazzock1976
motorhead1979
mouth-breather1979
no-brainer1979
jerkwad1980
woodentop1981
dickwad1983
dough ball1983
dickweed1984
bawheid1985
numpty1985
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
knob-end1989
Muppet1989
dingus1997
dicksack1999
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1837 Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 344 ‘But now,’ continued Sam, ‘now I find what a reg'lar soft-headed, ink-red'lous turnip I must ha been.’
Compounds
General attrib. C1.
a. Simple attrib.
turnip-cart n.
Π
1674 S. Butler Epist. to Sidrophel in Hudibras (new ed.) ii. 393 A Wheelbarrow, or Turnip Cart.
turnip crop n.
Π
1801 Farmer's Mag. Jan. 107 The turnip crop is probably the best..ever remembered.
turnip-culture n.
Π
1801 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 279 The soil..is not..of that stiff sort adapted to beans or wheat, but abundantly free, so as to be well adapted to turnip-culture.
turnip-drill n.
Π
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxii. 154 The Spring of the Turnep-Drill being so very thin [etc.].
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 17 Turnip-Drill..for sowing turnips on the tops of one-bout ridges.
1856 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 1026 The proper width of a turnip drill in Scotland seems..to be..twenty-seven inches.
turnip-farmer n.
Π
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry x. 48 If Turneps be sown in June,..the most Experienc'd Turnep-Farmers, will have no more than Thirty to a square Perch left in Hand-Hoing.
turnip-field n.
Π
1773 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 618/2 In his distress he frequented a turnep-field.
turnip-husbandry n.
Π
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry x. 47 The greatest Inconvenience, which has been observ'd in the Turnep-Husbandry, is when they are Fed off late in the Spring.
1848 A. Hepburn in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 6. 272 Turnip husbandry, and the cultivation of red clover, were introduced about 1740.
turnip-leaf n.
Π
1766 J. W. Baker in Compl. Farmer at Turnep The upper side of the turnip leaf, in its infant state, is very smooth, and on that part the flies always lodge.
turnip-pit n.
Π
1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xxx Kit only lifted the lantern and made for the turnip-pits.
turnip plot n.
Π
1670 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 194 Buried..in her garden..under a turnip plot.
1813 Columbian Centinel (Boston) 1 Sept. 1/2 I cannot protect every man's turnip patch.
turnip-root n.
Π
1606 G. W. tr. Epit. Liues Emperors in tr. Justinus Hist. sig. Ll vv It rained wheat, Turnup-rootes, and pease in Slesia, which much comforted the poore people, in the extreamity of famine.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry i. 3 A Large Root..which..might have..extended near as far as the Turnip Roots did.
turnip-seed n.
Π
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong De la Navette, turnop seed.
1621 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) II. 250 Turneppe seede, iiijd.
1840 C. Howard Farming at Ridgemont 155 in Brit. Husbandry III It was drilled with turnip-seed upon a limestone soil.
turnip store n.
Π
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 11 Fig. 213 represents the form of the turnip-store.
turnip-trough n.
Π
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 41 A simple form of turnip-trough.
turnip year n.
Π
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 77 A bad turnip year.
b. Allusively.
turnip-head n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun]
asseOE
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beastc1225
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stock1303
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dastardc1440
dotterel1440
dullardc1440
wantwit1449
jobardc1475
nollc1475
assheada1500
mulea1500
dull-pate15..
peak1509
dulbert?a1513
doddy-patec1525
noddypolla1529
hammer-head1532
dull-head?1534
capon1542
dolt1543
blockhead1549
cod's head1549
mome1550
grout-head1551
gander1553
skit-brains?1553
blocka1556
calfa1556
tomfool1565
dunce1567
druggard1569
cobble1570
dummel1570
Essex calf1573
jolthead1573
hardhead1576
beetle-head1577
dor-head1577
groutnoll1578
grosshead1580
thickskin1582
noddyship?1589
jobbernowl1592
beetle-brain1593
Dorbel1593
oatmeal-groat1594
loggerhead1595
block-pate1598
cittern-head1598
noddypoop1598
dorbellist1599
numps1599
dor1601
stump1602
ram-head1605
look-like-a-goose1606
ruff1606
clod1607
turf1607
asinego1609
clot-poll1609
doddiea1611
druggle1611
duncecomb1612
ox-head1613
clod-polla1616
dulman1615
jolterhead1620
bullhead1624
dunderwhelpa1625
dunderhead1630
macaroona1631
clod-patea1635
clota1637
dildo1638
clot-pate1640
stupid1640
clod-head1644
stub1644
simpletonian1652
bottle-head1654
Bœotiana1657
vappe1657
lackwit1668
cudden1673
plant-animal1673
dolt-head1679
cabbage head1682
put1688
a piece of wood1691
ouphe1694
dunderpate1697
numbskull1697
leather-head1699
nocky1699
Tom Cony1699
mopus1700
bluff-head1703
clod skull1707
dunny1709
dowf1722
stupe1722
gamphrel1729
gobbin?1746
duncehead1749
half-wit1755
thick-skull1755
jackass1756
woollen-head1756
numbhead1757
beef-head1775
granny1776
stupid-head1792
stunpolla1794
timber-head1794
wether heada1796
dummy1796
noghead1800
staumrel1802
muttonhead1803
num1807
dummkopf1809
tumphya1813
cod's head and shoulders1820
stoopid1823
thick-head1824
gype1825
stob1825
stookiea1828
woodenhead1831
ning-nong1832
log-head1834
fat-head1835
dunderheadism1836
turnip1837
mudhead1838
donkey1840
stupex1843
cabbage1844
morepork1845
lubber-head1847
slowpoke1847
stupiditarian1850
pudding-head1851
cod's head and shoulders1852
putty head1853
moke1855
mullet-head1855
pothead1855
mug1857
thick1857
boodle1862
meathead1863
missing link1863
half-baked1866
lunk1867
turnip-head1869
rummy1872
pumpkin-head1876
tattie1879
chump1883
dully1883
cretin1884
lunkhead1884
mopstick1886
dumbhead1887
peanut head1891
pie-face1891
doughbakea1895
butt-head1896
pinhead1896
cheesehead1900
nyamps1900
box head1902
bonehead1903
chickenhead1903
thickwit1904
cluck1906
boob1907
John1908
mooch1910
nitwit1910
dikkop1913
goop1914
goofus1916
rumdum1916
bone dome1917
moron1917
oik1917
jabroni1919
dumb-bell1920
knob1920
goon1921
dimwit1922
ivory dome1923
stone jug1923
dingleberry1924
gimp1924
bird brain1926
jughead1926
cloth-head1927
dumb1928
gazook1928
mouldwarp1928
ding-dong1929
stupido1929
mook1930
sparrow-brain1930
knobhead1931
dip1932
drip1932
epsilon1932
bohunkus1933
Nimrod1933
dumbass1934
zombie1936
pea-brain1938
knot-head1940
schlump1941
jarhead1942
Joe Soap1943
knuckle-head1944
nong1944
lame-brain1945
gobshite1946
rock-head1947
potato head1948
jerko1949
turkey1951
momo1953
poop-head1955
a right one1958
bam1959
nong-nong1959
dickhead1960
dumbo1960
Herbert1960
lamer1961
bampot1962
dipshit1963
bamstick1965
doofus1965
dick1966
pillock1967
zipperhead1967
dipstick1968
thickie1968
poephol1969
yo-yo1970
doof1971
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1869 D. G. Rossetti Let. 1 Mar. (1965) II. 689 The turnip-head falls off the broomstick.
1931 S. Kaye-Smith Hist. Susan Spray iii. 281 He..saw her standing there..fooling all those turnip-heads, who wanted to be fooled.
1962 Spectator 2 Nov. 684 Pop..has become the divisive symbol between the turnip-heads and the giant intellects.
turnip-heart n.
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a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1980) ii. ii. 856 Burg., We are strong enough to curb 'em. Leid., But we haue turnop harts.
turnip-pate n.
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Turnep-pate, White or Fair-hair'd.
turnip-watch n.
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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
1898 Tit-Bits 25 June 245/2 Consulting his..turnip watch to see if his daughters' train was due.
c. In names of things made of turnips, or in which the turnip is a principal ingredient.
turnip-bread n.
Π
1693 S. Dale in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 970 Of this Turnep-Bread (for so they call it) I have both seen and tasted.
1763 Museum Rusticum (ed. 2) I. 106 I baked my turnep-bread rather longer than the other.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 236 In..1629 and 1630..good..wholesome bread was made of boiled turnips,..kneaded with..wheaten flour,..called turnip-bread.
turnip pasty n.
Π
1905 Daily Chron. 14 July 4/7 In Cornwall the fisherman home from sea, in the intervals of blowing the fire, blows himself out with turnip pasty.
turnip pie n.
Π
1835 W. Howitt in A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford (1882) I. 267 A turnip-pie fit in size to set on Arthur's own round table.
turnip poultice n.
Π
1735 W. Burdon Gentleman's Pocket-farrier 29 The Turnip Poultice will infallibly cure it.
d. Objective and obj. genitive.
turnip-chopper n.
Π
1837 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. 246 The roots are commonly cut into pieces by an instrument called the ‘turnip-chopper’.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 119 Much better instruments will be found in the two hand turnip-choppers.
turnip-cutter n.
Π
1837 Flemish Husb. 89 in Libr. Useful Knowl., Husb. III The roots were cut by a machine something like our turnip-cutters.
1879 J. Wrightson in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 108/2 1 bushel of swedes, cut small in a..turnip-cutter.
turnip-grower n.
Π
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 39 Sheep-flakes, or hurdles, a sort of portable fence, well known to every turnip grower.
turnip-hoer n.
Π
1791 W. Marshall Minutes in Rural Econ. W. Eng. (1796) II. 283 Any woman,..will, in one full season, become a sufficient Turnep hoer.
1886 T. Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge I. i. 5 A turnip-hoer with his hoe on his shoulder.
turnip-picker n.
Π
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 40 The shells..were picked out of the ground with..a turnip-picker.
turnip-puller n.
turnip-pulper n.
turnip-slicer n.
Π
1788 Trans. Soc. Arts 6 231 A Model of a Cabbage and Turnep Slicer.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 41 The..better plan of serving turnips to sheep..is to cut them into small pieces with a turnip-slicer into troughs conveniently placed for use.
turnip-sower n.
Π
1889 H. M. B. Reid Galloway Folk 42 A brand-new gaudily painted turnip-sower.
turnip-thinner n. (frequently as names of machines.)
Π
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 321/2 Turnip-Thinners... A class of machines has been brought out, of which Huckvale's turnip-thinner may be named as a type.
e.
turnip-bearing n.
Π
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair i. viii. 8 Anster's turnip-bearing vales.
turnip-cutting n.
Π
1854 M. Howitt Pict. Cal. Seasons 17 There was a noise of straw-cutting and turnip-cutting.
turnip-eating n.
Π
a1668 W. Davenant Vacation in London in Wks. (1673) 291 All these on hoof now trudge from Town, To cheat poor Turnip-eating Clown.
turnip-hacking n.
Π
1883 T. Hardy in Longman's Mag. July 267 A farm-woman's occupation is often ‘turnip-hacking’—that is, picking out from the land the stumps of turnips which have been eaten off by the sheep.
turnip-sowing n.
Π
1765 J. W. Baker in Museum Rusticum V. 270 I could not accomplish my turnip-sowing earlier.
turnip-thinning n.
Π
1905 Contemp. Rev. July 97 [I] went down the cart-track to the turnip-thinning.
f. Instrumental, parasynthetic, similative.
turnip-feeding n.
Π
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 329 Turnip-feeding was apt to breed wind in the sheep.
g.
turnip-faced adj. (cf. sense 3b.)
Π
1939 F. Thompson Lark Rise iii. 49 The old turnip-faced watches which descended from father to son.
turnip-fed adj.
Π
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Plate x. 40 A Scuffler employed..in putting in grain crops on turnip-fed lands after one ploughing.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 354 If straw be economically applied in littering turnip-fed stock [etc.].
turnip-headed adj.
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1898 J. Arch Story of Life xiii. 322 The turnip-headed farmer turned his back upon us.
turnip-leaved adj.
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?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 81 Turnep-leaved Cape Dandelion.
turnip-like adj.
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1766 Museum Rusticum 6 46 By this..production of the turnep-like knob, together with its being perennial, this species of cabbage is distinguished from all others.
turnip-pointed adj.
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1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 435 Turnip-pointed red [beet].
turnip-rooted adj.
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1727 Bradley's Fam. Dict. at Cyclamen The German Cyclamens are rather Turnep-rooted Plants than Bulbs.
1770 Ann. Reg. 1769 65/2 A premium for the cultivating..of..the turnip-rooted cabbage.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 651 The Red Beet... The turnip-rooted is an early variety with the roots round.
turnip-shaped adj.
turnip-stalked adj.
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1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants p. vi, in Gardeners Daily Assistant Turnep~stalked, with the turnep above ground.
turnip-stemmed adj.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 29 The turnip-stemmed cabbage or kholrabi.
turnip-tailed adj.
C2. Special combinations.
turnip-aphid n. (also turnip-aphis) the plant-louse of the turnip, Aphis rapæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > aphis rapae (turnip-aphis)
turnip-aphid1891
1891 Cent. Dict. Turnip-aphid... Also turnip-aphis.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 30 May 7/3 The corn-aphis, hop-aphis, turnip-aphis, bean-aphis.
turnip-beetle n. the turnip-flea.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > member of genus Haltica (turnip-flea)
turnip-fly1733
flea1805
turnip-beetle1816
flea-beetle1842
turnip-flea1842
hop-flea1880
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiii. 312 When the turnip-beetle (Haltica oleracea, F.) walks, its antennæ are alternately elevated and depressed.
1882 Garden 25 Mar. 198/1 The Turnip fly (or, as the well-known insect should more properly be called, the Turnip beetle or flea).
turnip-cabbage n. the turnip-stemmed cabbage or kohlrabi n.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > cabbage or kale > [noun] > cabbage > kohl-rabi
cabbage-turnip1548
turnip-cabbage1765
kohlrabi1808
kohl1880
kale-turnip1890
1765 Ann. Reg. ii. 146/2 The turnep-cabbage is so called, because the stalk, after rising to some distance from the ground..swells suddenly into a roundish knob.
1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 627 The Turnip-cabbage, or turnip borecole,..is a dwarf-growing plant, with the stem swelled out so as to resemble a turnip above ground, but of a delicate green colour.
turnip-flea n. (also turnip flea-beetle) a minute shiny black leaping beetle, Haltica nemorum, which feeds on the young leaves of the turnip and other crucifers; its larva mines in the full-grown leaf.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > member of genus Haltica (turnip-flea)
turnip-fly1733
flea1805
turnip-beetle1816
flea-beetle1842
turnip-flea1842
hop-flea1880
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1270/2 The turnip-flea belongs to a genus..of minute Coleopterous insects, of the section Tetramera, and family Galerucidæ.
1843 Zoologist 1 371 The valuable Sweedish turnip [has] put forth its second pair of leaves, and just escaped the ravages of the turnip flea beetle.
turnip-flower beetle n. see quot.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > member of (beetle) > unspecified type
frog-clock1620
steel beetle?1711
bum-clock1786
turnip-flower beetle1882
mopane beetle1972
1882 Garden 25 Mar. 198/2 The Turnip flower beetle..a very small, flat, bronzy green beetle.
turnip-fly n. (a) = turnip-flea n.; (b) the turnip-sawfly, a hymenopterous insect, Athalia centifoliæ, the larva of which (turnip-nigger n.) feeds on turnip-leaves; (c) a dipterous insect, Anthomyia radicum, whose larva lives in the root of the turnip.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Muscidae > anthomyia radicum
turnip-fly1733
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > family Tenthredinidae > athalia centifolia (turnip-sawfly)
turnip-fly1733
turnip-saw-fly1844
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > member of genus Haltica (turnip-flea)
turnip-fly1733
flea1805
turnip-beetle1816
flea-beetle1842
turnip-flea1842
hop-flea1880
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxiv. 187 By the shallow or deep [seed sown], the Turnep-Fly is generally disappointed.
1765 J. W. Baker in Museum Rusticum V. 277 I discovered last season three distinct species of the turnip fly..one of them is black; it seems to hop like a flea.
1771 G. White Let. 30 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 90 The country people here call it the turnip-fly and black-dolphin; but I know it to be one of the coleoptera; the chrysomela oleracea.
1813 H. Davy Elements Agric. Chem. v. 190 The turnip fly..fixes itself upon the seed-leaves of the turnip at the time that they are beginning to perform their functions.
1879 E. P. Wright Animal Life 498 One of the best-known species [of Tetramera] is the so-called Turnip-fly (Haltica nemorum).
turnip-gall weevil n. see quot.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 781 The Curculio plurostigma, the Turnip~gall weevil.
turnip-ghost n. a simulated ghost or apparition of which the head is formed by a turnip-lantern.
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turnip-ghost1863
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grubbing1679
apple-pie bed1781
booby trap1846
turnip-ghost1863
whoopee cushion1931
hot foot1934
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1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 323 Out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies.
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turnip-grass n. Panicum bulbosum, used as hay in Texas, Arizona, and Mexico, the stems of which have a bulbous base ( Cent. Dict. Suppl. 1909).
turnip greens n. = turnip-tops at sense 1a.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > turnip-tops
turnip-top1710
turnip greens1796
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > turnip-tops
turnip-top1710
turnip greens1796
1796 J. Woodforde Diary 9 Feb. (1929) IV. 262 Dinner to day, fryed Pork & Turnip Green.
1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 247/2 They may give a few Turnip-greens when they are very useful.
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 229/1 The young and tender leaves, which are popularly called ‘turnip-greens’.
turnip-jack n. = turnip-flea n.
turnip-land n. = turnip-soil n.
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1801 Farmer's Mag. Apr. 238 Almost every acre of turnip~land has been sown with wheat, as fast as the grounds were cleared.
turnip-lantern n. the hollowed rind of a turnip employed as a lantern; also as a term of abuse ( Eng. Dial. Dict.).
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > made from a turnip, pumpkin, or beet
turnip1766
pumpkin lantern1834
Jack-o'-lantern1837
turnip-lantern1844
punkie1931
1844 E. FitzGerald Lett. (1894) I. 163 You have seen a turnip-lantern, perhaps.
turnip leaf-miner n. ? the larva of the turnip-flea.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > member of genus Haltica (turnip-flea) > larva of
turnip leaf-miner1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 778 A class of insects called turnip-leaf miners.
turnip-louse n. = turnip-aphis, variant of turnip-aphid n. ( Cent. Dict. Suppl.).
turnip-maggot n. the larva of Anthomyia radicum (turnip-fly n. (c)) ( Cent. Dict.).
turnip-mutton n. the flesh of turnip-sheep.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > types of mutton
ram mutton1599
Welsh muttona1627
wether-mutton1707
turnip-muttona1722
marsh mutton1724
traik1802
Southdown1818
pré salé1839
Southdowner1841
tup-mutton1844
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 335 Several butchers..agreed..that turnip-mutton would be waterish.
turnip-nigger n. the black larva of Athalia centifoliæ (turnip-fly n. (b)).
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black jack1807
nigger1840
black caterpillar1848
nigger caterpillar1850
turnip-nigger1893
1893 Daily News 20 Apr. 6/2 The sparrow,..that brazen little thief who affects to despise wireworm, turnip nigger, and gooseberry grub, but has the keenest of keen eyes for blossoming peas and delicate young wheat.
turnip-oats n. a crop of oats succeeding turnips.
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pilled oats1578
naked oat1597
groats1669
pillez1764
oat1790
Scotch grey1798
turnip-oatsc1800
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turnip-oatsc1800
turnip-wheat1808
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berimancorn1359
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rye1608
turnip-oatsc1800
turnip-wheat1808
rabi1827
sod corn1835
c1800 T. Blackadder in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 12. 101 Your queys and stots, Hae trampled a' my turnip oats.
turnip-parsnip n. a turnip-rooted parsnip.
turnip-radish n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > radish > radish plants
short-top1786
turnip-radish1786
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 81 Turnep-radish—sow the small white Italian sort.
turnip-saw-fly n. = turnip-fly n. (b).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > family Tenthredinidae > athalia centifolia (turnip-sawfly)
turnip-fly1733
turnip-saw-fly1844
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 772 The turnip saw-fly, Athalia spinarum,..is denominated a saw-fly, from the use and appearance of the instrument with which it deposits its eggs.
turnip-sheep n. sheep that have been fed on turnips.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined by eating habits
turnip-sheep1844
trek sheep1912
smothering1950
heft1960
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 48 Turnip-sheep are thus easily obtained at fairs in autumn.
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turnip-shell n. a shell of the family Turbinellidæ, esp. of the genus Rapa ( Cent. Dict.):
turnip-sick adj. of land: exhausted by successive crops of turnips.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > exhausted
worn1681
sickly1697
potato-sick1834
harvestless1868
scourged1880
turnip-sick1880
soil-sick1962
desertified1980
1880 R. Jefferies Round about Great Estate i. 6 Some of the land is getting ‘turnip-sick’, the roots come stringy and small and useless.
turnip-soil n. soil suitable or used for turnip-culture.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > turnip land
turnip-soil1812
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 34 This ought more especially to be attended to upon all turnip soils.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 330 No kind of soil affords so dry and comfortable a lair to sheep on turnips, and on this account it is distinguished as ‘turnip-soil’.
turnip-system n. a system of crop-rotation based on turnip-culture.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > [noun] > rotation of crops
rotation1757
course1767
succession1779
turnip-system1805
convertible husbandry1811
four-field course1842
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 540 Another sort of this grain that may probably be cultivated to advantage in particular cases, as where the turnip system is much practised.
turnip-top n. (usually plural) the sprouting leaves of the second year's growth of the turnip, used as a vegetable.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > leaf vegetables > [noun] > turnip-tops
turnip-top1710
turnip greens1796
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > turnip-tops
turnip-top1710
turnip greens1796
1710 Swift in Swift & R. Steele Tatler No. 238 Dead Cats and Turnep Tops come tumbling down the Flood.
1848 C. C. Clifford tr. Aristophanes Frogs 22 Don't beat him with a leek or turnip-top.
1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 44 Turnip-tops contain a considerable amount of nutritive matter.
turnip-tray n. a hurdle used for penning sheep on turnip-land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > net or hurdle on turnips
sheep-net1794
turnip-tray1805
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > folding sheep > fold or pen
sheepfolda1430
caul1483
boughta1522
sheep-garth1570
wool-hurdle1586
barkary?1592
sheep-pen1649
ovil1674
night-lair1688
turnip-tray1805
sheep-ree1817
stow1856
dead-fold1897
sheep-camp1911
check-pen1922
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 672 Sheep-penns or turnip-trays made and fixed in such a way as to constitute a sort of moveable trough.
turnip-wheat n. cf. turnip-oats n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > aftercrop > specific aftercrop
turnip-oatsc1800
turnip-wheat1808
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > grain crop > specific grain crops
berimancorn1359
millet?a1425
rye1608
turnip-oatsc1800
turnip-wheat1808
rabi1827
sod corn1835
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 164 The hacked wheat stubbles are uniformly more foul and grassy than the stubbles of the fallow and turnip-wheat.
turnip-wood n. Australian rosewood, Synoum glandulosum (N.O. Meliaceæ), or its timber, which smells like turnips; see also quot. 1898.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian
tallow-tree1704
rata1773
rosewood1779
red mahogany1798
ironbark1799
wild orange1802
red gum1803
rewarewa1817
red cedar1818
black-butted gum1820
Huon pine1820
miro1820
oak1821
horoeka1831
hinau1832
maire1832
totara1832
blackbutt1833
marri1833
raspberry jam tree1833
kohekohe1835
puriri1835
tawa1839
hickory1840
whau1840
pukatea1841
titoki1842
butterbush1843
iron gum1844
York gum1846
mangeao1848
myall1848
ironheart1859
lilly-pilly1860
belah1862
flindosa1862
jarrah1866
silky oak1866
teak of New South Wales1866
Tolosa-wood1866
turmeric-tree1866
walking-stick palm1869
tooart1870
queenwood1873
tarairi1873
boree1878
yate1880
axe-breaker1884
bangalay1884
coachwood1884
cudgerie1884
feather-wood1884
forest mahogany1884
maiden's blush1884
swamp mahogany1884
tallow-wood1884
teak of New Zealand1884
wandoo1884
heartwood1885
ivorywood1887
Jimmy Low1887
Burdekin plum1889
corkwood1889
pigeon-berry ash1889
red beech1889
silver beech1889
turnip-wood1891
black bean1895
red bean1895
pinkwood1898
poplar1898
rose mahogany1898
quandong1908
lancewood1910
New Zealand honeysuckle1910
Queensland walnut1919
mahogany gum1944
Australian mahogany1948
1891 Cent. Dict. Turnip-wood,..Synoum glandulosum.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Turnip-wood, the timbers of the trees Akania hillii,..N.O. Sapindaceæ, and Dysoxylon Muelleri.. N.O. Meliaceæ, from their white and red colours respectively.
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turniˈpology n. (nonce-word) contemptuous term for phrenology.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [noun]
cranioscopy1804
craniology1806
craniognosy1810
craniognomy1813
organology1814
phrenology1815
zoonomy1815
bumpology1822
turnipology1824
organoscopy1864
1824 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 15 150 The system..I mean Turnipology.
1826 Scott Jrnl. 29 Dec. (1939) 296 The son..tampers with phrenology... There is a certain kind of cleverish men..who are attached to that same turnipology.
turniˈpologist n.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > faculty psychology > psychological study of the skull > [noun] > practitioner of
cranioscopist1809
craniologist1815
phrenologist1815
bumpologist1824
turnipologist1824
bumposopher1836
phrenologer1846
1824 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Mag. 15 711 Bad novels, which no human creature above the calibre of a Turnipologist would now endure three pages of.
ˈturnipy adj. like, or like that of, a turnip; pertaining to or connected with turnips; tasting of turnips.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [adjective] > homely or rustic
homelya1387
uplandisha1387
hamald?a1400
rustical1483
agrestc1550
fustianc1550
homespun1590
russet1598
agrestic1617
raplocha1628
Adamitic1656
russet-coated1683
rustic1738
turnipy1792
countrified1875
corny1932
bakya1960
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined
boistousc1300
untheweda1325
uplandisha1387
unaffiled1390
rudea1393
knavishc1405
peoplisha1425
clubbedc1440
blunt1477
lob?1507
robust1511
borel1513
carterly1519
clubbish1530
rough?1531
rustical?1532
incondite1539
agrestc1550
rusticc1550
brute1555
lobcocka1556
loutisha1556
carterlike1561
boorish1562
ruggedc1565
lobbish1567
loutlike1567
sowish1570
clownish1581
unrefined1582
impolished1583
homespun1590
transalpinea1592
swaddish1593
unpolished1594
untutored1595
swabberly1596
tartarous1602
porterly1603
lobcocked1606
lob-like1606
cluster-fisted1611
agrestic1617
inurbane1623
unelevated1627
incult1628
unbrushed1640
vulgar1643
unhewed1644
unsmooth1648
hirsute1658
loutardly1658
unhewn1659
roughsome?c1660
sordid1668
inhumanea1680
coarse1699
brutal1709
ramgunshoch1721
tramontane1740
uncouth1740
no-nationa1756
unurbane1760
turnipy1792
rudas1802
common1804
cubbish1819
clodhopping1828
vulgarian1833
cloddish1844
unkempt1846
bush1851
vulgarish1860
rodney1866
crude1876
ignorant1886
yobby1910
nekulturny1932
oikish1959
yobbish1966
ocker1972
down and dirty1977
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [adjective] > turnip
turnipy1792
1792–5 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld Evenings at Home (1805) V. xxiii. 70 The reason why turnipy milk and butter have such a strong taste.
1818 Sporting Mag. 2 229 His constitution is inclined to the turnippy sort, and..he will not stand through those lengthened..combats.
1853 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 14 i. 72 Disagreeable turnipy flavour.
1873 R. Broughton Nancy I. 70 My acquaintance is confined to half-a-dozen turnipy squires and their wives.
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ˈturnipv.
1. trans. To plant or crop (land) with turnips.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > crop with turnips
turnip1789
1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 63 Was the ground turneped three years?
1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 ii. 420 The land is given to couch if not turniped often.
2. To feed or fatten (sheep) on turnips.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > fatten sheep or lambs
flush1764
turnip1799
to make off1851
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > rear sheep or wool [verb (transitive)] > fatten > on turnips
turnip1799
net1847
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 320 Shearling wethers; turniped by many, and sold in the wool.
1847 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 8 ii. 430 Those [sheep] in good condition, and off the best farms, are bought for turnipping.
1868 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 2nd Ser. 4 ii. 350 Not a few ‘Penrith hoggs’ are turniped in Dumfries.
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