swede
- noun
- /swiːd/
- UK
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nabo
- The swedes make better vodka, Shit, even the French make better vodka.
Examples
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If a Swede can do it, you can do it.
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I've also got some Swede cooking and some abisto.
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Spinach, apples and Swede, a spoon.
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Now add the carrot, whole shallots, and chopped-up swede and cook for 5 minutes.
Blog text (9) -
Even cucumbers and swedes are shrink-wrapped in plastic; it's just ridiculous.
Blog text (26) -
To content yourself with lifting swedes when the Devil dangles his twenty-two gold carrots?
Fiction book (1999) -
Hardy uses the terms "swede" (no longer capitalized as it was earlier in the century) and "turnip" interchangeably in these pages.
Academic text (1995) -
I made a delicious soup with carrots, potatoes, and swede.
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At the farmers' market, I bought some fresh swede to roast for dinner.
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The recipe calls for a large swede, which adds a sweet flavor to the dish.
Synonyms
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A large round root vegetable like a turnip with yellow flesh eaten as food
A large round yellow root vegetable also called rutabaga
A plant with a large yellow root that you eat
A root vegetable with a large yellow bulb that you can eat, called rutabaga or swede
A large yellow root vegetable people eat cooked or mashed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Swede is short for the phrase 'Swedish turnip' because the vegetable was brought from Sweden. It is the same large, round root vegetable often called rutabaga, and the name reminds you it is a root like a turnip.