Swede vs Spede - What's the difference?
swede | spede |
(chiefly, British) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus , resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
The plant from which this is obtained.
(Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip.
* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Those capitaines whiche come to faight a field, cannot stand behind a wal, or behind bankes, nor where thei maie not be reached: therfore it is mete for them, seyng thei cannot finde a waie to defende them, to finde some mean, by the whiche thei maie be least hurte: nor thei cannot finde any other waie, then to prevente it quickly: the waie to prevent it, is to go to finde it out of hande, and hastely, not at leasure and in a heape: for that through spede , the blowe is not suffered to bee redoubled, and by the thinnesse, lesse nomber of menne maie be hurt. }}
As nouns the difference between swede and spede
is that swede is a person from sweden or of swedish descent while spede is .swede
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* (plant) rutabaga * (vegetable) rutabaga , neep (Scotland), yellow turnip (US), winter turnipAnagrams
*spede
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