English
Alternative spellings
turmat
turmut
tormit
tummit
Noun
en-noun
- context|nonstandard|UK turnip
Quotations
1825, John Trotter Brockett, A Glossary of North Country Words in Use
:T<small>ORMIT</small>, T<small>URMIT</small>, 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
:T<small>ORMIT</small>, 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;
ru:turmit
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