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Meanings of neep in English

Russian
брюква
Portuguese
nabo
Spanish
brassica napobrassica
Catalan
brassica napobrassica
Wikidata

Subspecies of plant.

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      брюква

      Root vegetable.

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            Usage of neep in English
            1
            The only odds is, that we ken that we dinna ken, and the neep-seed kens nothing at all aboot it.
            David Elginbrod
            2
            Just after the sun sets and the bushes bloom with bugs, you will see bats flitter, silhouetted as they neep.
            Year's best sf 15
            3
            We ken no more, Maister Sutherlan', what we're growin' till, than that neep-seed there kens what a neep is, though a neep it will be.
            David Elginbrod
            4
            Think of our back garden, with our own 'neeps' and vegetable marrows growing in it!
            Penelope's Experiences in Scotland / Being Extracts from the Com...
            5
            We could do without the neeps.
            A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
            6
            He's let Heatherbell intill the neeps.
            The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
            7
            Apples, onions, neeps, carrots... there's a long winter ahead for all of us, and our stores are not inexhaustible.
            A Dance with Dragons
            8
            In Ireland, the chunky, purple and orange root vegetables are commonly known as turnips, and in Scotland they are neeps.
            The Irish Times
            9
            But, again, to advance a step further, there are, as the landlady of the inn remarked, "neeps intilt."
            Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects
            10
            "Robin Fordyce," says the old lady severely, "what garred ye loose Heatherbell in among the neeps.
            The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
            11
            "It's wild boar," the woman said, "well peppered, and served with onions, mushrooms, and mashed neeps."
            A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms