neep
/neep/US // nip //UK // (niːp) //
窥视,窥探,观察,渗透
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Scot.
- : a turnip.
Examples
Rogers speaks of shipping while at Batavia "half a leaguer of Spelman's neep, or the best sort of arrack."
Is the modern term "nip of spirit" derived from this word neep?
The only odds is, that we ken that we dinna ken, and the neep-seed kens nothing at all aboot it.
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