different between swede vs swedge

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

English

Etymology

Malapropism of English swage (“a groove, moulding; moulding tool”).(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Why the sense about leaving a restaurant without paying?”)

Pronunciation

Noun

swedge (countable and uncountable, plural swedges)

1. A tool (originally a bevelled chisel) for making grooves in horseshoes.
2. (Scotland, slang, uncountable) The drug MDMA.

Verb

swedge (third-person singular simple present swedges, present participle swedging, simple past and past participle swedged)

1. To shape metal using a hammer or other force.
2. (colloquial) To leave (a restaurant etc.) without paying.
3. To fold under or round an object.

Anagrams

• Wedges, wedges