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Turnip vs Turmit - What's the difference?

turnip | turmit |

As nouns the difference between turnip and turmit

is that turnip is the white root of a yellow-flowered plant, brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle while turmit is (nonstandard|british) turnip.

turnip

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The white root of a yellow-flowered plant, Brassica rapa , grown as a vegetable and as fodder for cattle.
  • (Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Atlantic Canada) The yellow root of a related plant, the swede or Brassica napus .

    • Synonyms

    * (Brassica rapa) (summer turnip), swede (Ireland, Northern England, Scotland), tumshie (Scotland), white turnip (Cornwall, Scotland)

    Derived terms

    * fall off the turnip truck * Swedish turnip * (turnip flea) * (turnip fly)

    See also

    * rutabaga * swede * turnip greens

    References

    turmit

    English

    Alternative forms

    *turmat *turmut *tormit *tummit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nonstandard, British) turnip
  • *1825, John Trotter Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words in Use
  • *:TORMIT', ' TURMIT , a turnip.
  • *1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York
  • *:TURMAT , A turnip.
  • *1863, Joseph Philip Robson (ed.), Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or a choice collection of original songs, chiefly in the Newcastle dialect
  • *:We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin.
  • *1857, Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English
  • *:TORMIT , s.'' A turnip. ''North.
  • *1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire
  • *:Tur'?'''mit . ''s. A turnip.
  • *1890, John Drummond Robertson & Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester
  • *:TURMIT' or '''TURMUT . ''sb. Turnip. [Common.]
  • *1918, Joseph Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village
  • *:“I be a turmut hower,
  • *::Vram Gloucestershire I came;