[mojocafa]

What is a neep?

http://www.veg-world.com/articles/neeps.htm

[bigchicken]

A neep is a tumshie. When i was a boy we used to put six inch nails on the railway track the trains flattened them into a useful knife which we used to cut our tumshie into bite size pieces. In those days most farmers had a tumshie field.

[mojocafa]

Is a tumshie what I would call a gowk

[NicandChic]

It's a turnip you tumshie   

[Possum]

I always thought a neep was a turnip or a swede.

[mojocafa]

So a neep is a turnip

Or a gowk
 
Thank you folks

A swede is a person from sweden. 

Off to a new sentence now where I promise not to mention this 

[bigchicken]

Hunt the gowk or hunty gowk never herd it used for a tumshie. But I can see where it would come from, gowk being an idiot and as thick as a tumshie.

[Carse Goodlifers]

What did I start earlier?
I was only being pedantic 

[Mammyshaz]

A neep is a snadgy  great for lanterns at Halloween. Last longer than those great big pumpkins bought these days and more flesh for soup afterwards too 

[Clarebelle]

A neep is a Swede up here, not a turnip

[devonlady]

It's a neep in Scotland, a swede in England and a turnip in Cornwall. Hope this helps

[SallyintNorth]

Ah, but when is a turnip a swede?       

[Rosemary]

The vegetable Dan calls a swede, I call a turnip or neep. What he calls a turnip, I call a white turnip.

Turnip or neep may be used as a derogatory term for someone with low intelligence.

Some of you may recall a Sun headline (I think) following an international foorball defeat os England by Sweden which was along the lines of "Swedes 3; Turnips Nil". 

[cloddopper]

Are you folk talking out you swedes about rutabagas?

[Daisys Mum]

I think they are talking about bageies (can't spell it's)