单词 | turnip |
释义 | turnipn. 1. 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. 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 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. 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 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. ΘΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. 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 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > stupid person, dolt, blockhead > [noun] asseOE sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 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 eight ball- 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.’ CompoundsGeneral 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 sotc1000 beastc1225 long-ear?a1300 stock1303 buzzard1377 mis-feelinga1382 dasarta1400 stonea1400 dasiberd14.. dottlec1400 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 eight ball- 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Turnep-pate, White or Fair-hair'd. turnip-watch n. 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 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. ΘΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 1898 J. Arch Story of Life xiii. 322 The turnip-headed farmer turned his back upon us. turnip-leaved adj. Π ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 81 Turnep-leaved Cape Dandelion. turnip-like adj. Π 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. Π 1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 435 Turnip-pointed red [beet]. turnip-rooted adj. Π 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. Π 1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants p. vi, in Gardeners Daily Assistant Turnep~stalked, with the turnep above ground. turnip-stemmed adj. Π 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Π 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. ΘΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > simulated ghost turnip-ghost1863 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [noun] > a trick, prank, hoax > of a particular kind grubbing1679 apple-pie bed1781 booby trap1846 turnip-ghost1863 whoopee cushion1931 hot foot1934 water bomb1947 Chinese fire drill1980 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 323 Out popped turnip-ghosts and magic-lanthorns and pasteboard bogies. Thesaurus » Categories » 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Π 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΠ 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)). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Symphta or Phytophaga Sessiliventres > family Tenthredinidae > athalia centifolia (turnip-sawfly) > larva of 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. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > oats > oat plants pilcorn1283 aveyn1475 pillotes1551 pilled oats1578 naked oat1597 groats1669 pillez1764 oat1790 Scotch grey1798 turnip-oatsc1800 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Categories » 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. Derivatives turniˈpology n. (nonce-word) contemptuous term for phrenology. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2018). ˈturnipv. 1. trans. To plant or crop (land) with turnips. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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