swede

From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s.

• IPA^(key): /swiːd/

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• Homophone: Swede

swede (plural swedes)

1. (chiefly Britain) The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
2. The plant from which this is obtained.
3. (Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) The turnip.
4. (Britain, slang) The head.
   • 2005, The Spectator (volume 299, page 49)

     Gotta be so careful nowadays; local copper's no problem but the cow from the council done me 'cos this almost brained a punter when it fell on his swede.

• (plant): rutabaga (US, Canada)
• (vegetable): rutabaga (US, Canada), neep (Scotland), yellow turnip (US), winter turnip

Coined by Michel Gondry in the film Be Kind Rewind, from the claim that films produced in this way were imported from Sweden.

• IPA^(key): /swiːd/
• Homophone: Swede

swede (third-person singular simple present swedes, present participle sweding, simple past and past participle sweded)

1. To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques.
   • 2008, Esquire, "The Five Most Awesomely Sweded Movies"

     Chances are you've sweded something before without even knowing it.

   • 2014, The Guardian, "Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it?"

     Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones and John Rambo are this era's King Arthur, Beowulf and Robin Hood – and sweding represents a playful and heartfelt engagement with their myths.

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