Sentence examples for neep from inspiring English sources

Rutabaga (Brassica napus, variety napobrassica), also known as Swedish turnip, wax turnip, swede, or neep, root vegetable in the mustard family (Brassicaceae), cultivated for its fleshy roots and edible leaves.

When I first moved to Scotland, I wouldn't have known a "neep" if it was aimed straight at my head and fired out of the One O'Clock gun at Edinburgh castle.

Next the neep (or neeps, plural).

Now, 15 years later, I know that a neep is a swede and it belongs alongside a pile of haggis (stuffed sheep's stomach) and a mountain of mashed potato.

He's already got a tight white bandage wrapped around his neep.

Neep, more commonly known as turnip or "boak", is an orange root vegetable that should be vigorously boiled until it achieves the consistency of lumpy wet cardboard.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm away to grapple with a neep  – and I may be some time.

As is Tevez - who really should see red, as the Juve striker definitely clanked his boot onto the keeper's neep.

Haggis has a rich flavour of the kind delicately described as "earthy" (which basically means offally) and an interestingly nubbly, oaty texture which suggested it might have potential as an ingredient once the less than fascinating neep was safely out of the picture.

Neeps and tattie salad: boil some chopped, peeled swede in salted water and after 10 minutes, add a handful of new potatoes, skin on but halved.

Back in Barcelona the Loch Inn, a Scottish bar, showed its support by serving haggis with neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes).Even forlorn and far-flung separatist hopes were briefly fanned: in the run-up to the Scottish vote the Texas Nationalist League said it was "paving the way" for the secession of Texas from the United States.