Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
neep . - noun
mashed swede (turnip inScotland ), especially when served withtatties (potatoes) andhaggis .
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Examples
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This is very good, though there is also something wonderful about just plain neeps, or clapshot, with a bit of butter melting on top, a few scallions chopped over all.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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This is very good, though there is also something wonderful about just plain neeps, or clapshot, with a bit of butter melting on top, a few scallions chopped over all.
Roots to Beg For: Clapshot Goes to Town Lindy 2006
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If I were, I'm afraid that Monte Pythonesque carryings on would be irresistable, and I'd be too hysterical to eat) neeps is great stuff.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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If I were, I'm afraid that Monte Pythonesque carryings on would be irresistable, and I'd be too hysterical to eat) neeps is great stuff.
Roots to Beg For: Clapshot Goes to Town Lindy 2006
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In the form of "neeps" (mashed with butter), rutabaga is a traditional companion of the often derided haggis.
Roots to Beg For: Clapshot Goes to Town Lindy 2006
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In the form of "neeps" (mashed with butter), rutabaga is a traditional companion of the often derided haggis.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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In Scotland it is mashed and served as 'neeps' with haggis.
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He writes that in Scotland, mashed 'neeps' are offered with strongly-flavoured sausages such as venison; while in Ireland, they are fried in bacon fat and served with a few rashers.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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He writes that in Scotland, mashed 'neeps' are offered with strongly-flavoured sausages such as venison; while in Ireland, they are fried in bacon fat and served with a few rashers.
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However, just to confuse matters, the Scots call swedes "neeps", and the Cornish also insist that they are filling their pasties with turnips, when in fact they are swedes.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Well, I get a weekly veg box from Riverford Farm, with India-unfriendly non-negotiable contents; every winter, I notice, neeps (aka swedes, or, in the US, rutabaga – and thus the ‘craggy wad’ with ‘the texture ... of wet dog crap’ that sparks the terrible primal scene in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections) turn up much more than anyone could want.
Jenny Turner · Stick in a Pie for Tomorrow: Thrift Jenny Turner 2026
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