different between rutabaga vs swede

English

Alternative forms

• ruta-baga

Etymology

1799, borrowed from Swedish rotabagge, a dialectal word from Västergötland, from rot (“root”) +? bagge (“lump, bunch”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??ut??be???/

Noun

rutabaga (usually uncountable, plural rutabagas)

1. (now Canada, US) the swede, or Swedish turnip; the European plant Brassica napus var. napobrassica
2. (now Canada, US) the edible root of this plant
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:

     Sometimes your royal dogs tear down our thatch,
     And then we seek the shelter of a ditch;
     Hog-wash or grains, or ruta-baga, none
     Has yet been ours since your reign begun.

Synonyms

• swede, Swedish turnip

Translations

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?y.ta.ba.?a/

Noun

rutabaga m (plural rutabagas)

1. swede, rutabaga (yellow root of Brassica napus)

Further reading

• “rutabaga” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Noun

rutabaga f (plural rutabagas)

1. rutabaga (Brassica napus, a plant with an edible root)

   Synonyms: colza, nabo da Suécia, couve-nabiça, couve-nabo

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swi?d/
• Homophone: Swede

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• sewed, weeds