Etymology

tumshie

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Today it means: A stupid or foolish person, idiot. Full definition →

Scots tumshie
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  1. Scots · borrowed fromtumshie“turnip”
  2. English todaytumshie

From Lowland Scots tumshie (“turnip”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.