swede

plural swedes

1. UKThe fleshy yellow root of a variety of rapeseed, Brassica napus var. napobrassica, resembling a large turnip, grown as a vegetable.
2. The plant from which this is obtained.

   Synonyms: rutabaga

3. IrelandNorthern EnglandScotlandThe turnip.
4. UKslangThe head.

   Gotta be so careful nowadays; local copper's no problem but the cow from the council done me 'cos this almost brained a punter when it fell on his swede.

   2005, The Spectator, volume 299, page 49

present singular third person swedes · participle present sweding · participle past sweded · past sweded

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

   Chances are you've sweded something before without even knowing it.

   2008, “The Five Most Awesomely Sweded Movies”, in Esquire

   1 more example

   Luke Skywalker, Indiana Jones and John Rambo are this era's King Arthur, Beowulf and Robin Hood – and sweding represents a playful and heartfelt engagement with their myths.

   2014, The Guardian, Sweded movies: the end of Hollywood as we know it?

plural Swedes

1. A person from Sweden or of Swedish descent.

   For the past nine years Swedes have been frustrated by foreign submarines probing their coastal waters.

   1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 613

2. historicalA member of an ancient North Germanic tribe that inhabited central Sweden.