swede

Meanings

Noun

• The fleshy yellow root of a variety of rape, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
• The plant from which this is obtained.
• The turnip.
• The head.

Verb

• To produce a low-budget remake of a film without the use of professional actors or filming techniques.

Related

Similar words

• rutabaga
• rutabaga , neep , yellow turnip , winter turnip

Origin

• Image:CDC rutabaga.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A swede.
• From the earlier term Swedish turnip, because the Swedes introduced the plant to the English in the 1700s.
• Coined by Michel Gondry in the film Be Kind Rewind, from the claim that films produced in this way were imported from Sweden.