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turmit

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

turnip

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, archaic, dialectal

Examples

  • 1825, John Trotter Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words in Use TORMIT, TURMIT, a turnip.
  • 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York TURMAT, A turnip.
  • 1863, Joseph Philip Robson (ed.), Songs of the bards of the Tyne; or a choice collection of original songs, chiefly in the Newcastle dialect We hev taties and turmits like Rosemary toppin.
  • 1857, Thomas Wright, Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English TORMIT, s. A turnip. North.
  • 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire Tur′mit. s. A turnip.
  • 1890, John Drummond Robertson & Henry Haughton Reynolds Moreton, A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester TURMIT or TURMUT. sb. Turnip. [Common.]
  • 1918, Joseph Arthur Gibbs, A Cotswold Village “I be a turmut hower, Vram Gloucestershire I came;

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