turmit

== English == === Alternative forms === turmat, turmut, tormit, tummit === Noun === turmit (plural turmits) (archaic, dialect, British) turnip 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;