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Title: What is a neep?
Post by: mojocafa on December 16, 2014, 08:01:51 pm

What is a neep?

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

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: bigchicken on December 16, 2014, 08:30:21 pm

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.

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: mojocafa on December 16, 2014, 08:39:43 pm

Is a tumshie what I would call a gowk

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: NicandChic on December 16, 2014, 08:48:46 pm

It's a turnip you tumshie  :innocent:  ;)

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: Possum on December 16, 2014, 08:51:37 pm

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

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: mojocafa on December 16, 2014, 08:53:58 pm

So a neep is a turnip

Or a gowk
 
Thank you folks

A swede is a person from sweden.  :roflanim:

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

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: bigchicken on December 16, 2014, 08:58:14 pm

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.

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: Carse Goodlifers on December 16, 2014, 09:18:05 pm

What did I start earlier???? :o
I was only being pedantic  :excited:

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: Mammyshaz on December 17, 2014, 04:40:44 am

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

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: Clarebelle on December 17, 2014, 06:58:42 am

A neep is a Swede up here, not a turnip

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: devonlady on December 17, 2014, 10:04:05 am

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

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: SallyintNorth on December 17, 2014, 10:30:02 am

Ah, but when is a turnip a swede?  :D    :stir:  ;) :eyelashes: :innocent:

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: Rosemary on December 17, 2014, 11:31:55 am

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".  ;D

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: cloddopper on December 17, 2014, 02:09:15 pm

Are you folk talking out you swedes about rutabagas?

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: Daisys Mum on December 17, 2014, 04:04:14 pm

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

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: doganjo on December 17, 2014, 04:49:56 pm

Yez are aw spikkin a load o tatties  :excited: or mince!  :innocent:

Title: Re: What is a neep?
Post by: Womble on December 17, 2014, 05:04:03 pm

All together now....
 
You say Neep, and I say Snadgie
You say Swede and I say Baggie
Turnip
Jicama (http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-jicama.htm)  ;)
Tumshie
Rutabaga
 
Let's call the whole thing off!  :roflanim: